Japanese Ivory Okimono Figure of a Man Carrying Monkeys

This fine statue features a peasant farmer stood on a log with a long bamboo stick in his right hand. Grape vines fall out of his statue and belt whilst in his left hand he's carrying the branch of a fruit tree on which a monkey sits. The second monkey sits on his head. The man's clothes are intricately carved. The piece sits on a smoothed, flat base