Very large Okimono Hotei with sack and children, Japan, Edo period(1603-1868), 19th c., elaborate bone carving with numerous engravings and colouring, the fat monk Hotei with fan and treasure bag dances surrounded by joyful Chinese children(karako), chrysanthemum decoration everywhere, symbols of happiness and long life: a bat emerges from a chrysanthemum box by means of a lingziphilz-shaped cloud and is hashed by a boy, a girl tries to grasp a gigantic peach fruit, plinth assembled from single segments, almost perfect state of preservation, signed sanbon/mitsuhon(?), 31x17x19cm