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L # 01 |
Rat |
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A rat holding a bean pod with its fore paws |
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Wood, teeth inlaid with ivory, eyes inlaid with horn, the fur delicately engraved. The rats tail forming the himotoshi, length 54 mm. |
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SIGNATURE: |
IKKAN |
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REFERENCE: |
For the carver IKKAN see Kentaru Akatsu: IKKAN and his Family, INSJ, Volume 16 (1996) Number 2, page 25 |
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PRICE: EUR 4.800,- |
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L # 02 |
ONO NO KOMACHI |
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The poetess as an elderly lady. She grins from under her straw hat carrying her belongings in a bag and walking barefoot with the aid of a cane. |
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Wood, high 31 mm |
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SIGNATURE: |
TOMIN |
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PROVENANCE: |
Ex Mary luise O’Brien Collection, Sotheby’s N.Y. Sept. 17, 1981 lot 84 Sotheby’s Honolulu, Jan. 28, 1984 lot 128 |
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ILLUSTRATED: |
O’Brien: NETSUKE, A GUIDE FOR COLLECTORS - Tokyo 1972, page 126 # 111 |
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PRICE: EUR 3.800,- |
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L # 19 |
Owl and Owlets |
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An owl perched on a gnarled branch. Two lttle owlets telescoped from withih the hollow stump. |
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Wood, 36 mm, eyes of the three birds inlaid. |
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SIGNATURE: |
IKKIYU |
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PRICE: EUR 4.100,- |
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L # 18 |
Lantern with Ghost of the Murdered Lady Oiwa |
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Wood, 48 mm, eyes inlaid in horn. |
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SIGNATURE: |
KOSEKI, lived in Kyoto ( 1871 - 1948 ) |
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The source of the design is HOKUSAI’s woodblock print “ The Ghost of Oiwa” from the series “One Hundred Ghost Series”. For the story of LADY OIWA see Helen Hurtig’s summary “Grotesqueries in Netsuke” published in INCS Journal Volume 8, No 3, page 34. |
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PRICE: EUR 2.200 |
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L # 801 |
Puppy and Fly |
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Sashi Netsuke |
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Ivory, eyes in tortoise shell, 27 mm |
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SIGNATURE: |
RANICHI (worked 1835 - 1865) |
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PROVENANCE: |
ex Bushell Collection |
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PUBLISHED. |
Bushell, Raymond: An Introduction to Netsuke, Tokyo, 1971, page 64, fig. 23 |
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EUR 2.850 |
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L # 802 |
Two Frogs on a Lotos Leaf |
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Ivory, eyes inlaid in dark horn 53 mm |
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SIGNATURE: |
YOSHIMASA |
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PUBLISHED: |
Meinertzhagen Card Index on Netsuke in the Archives of the British Museum, part B, New York 1986, page 985 |
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EUR 3.450 |
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L # 803 |
Fox as Priest leaning on Staff |
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Ivory, 85 mm, 18th Century |
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SIGNATURE: |
unsigned |
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For the legend of the Fox in Japanese Art: Joly, Legend in Japanese Art, page 143 - 150 Weber, Ko-ji Ho-ten, Volume II, page 201 - 204 |
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EUR 4.400 |
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