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A rare wood netsuke of three monkeys By Naito Toyomasa (1773-1856), Tanba, 1820
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8 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £85,250 inc. premium
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By Naito Toyomasa (1773-1856), Tanba, 1820
All seated, fighting over a peach, one eating a peach which the others try to wrest from him, forming a compact composition in well-patinated and slightly-worn wood, the eyes of pale translucent horn, signed in a long rounded rectangular reserve Toyomasa, rokujugosai (at the age of 65). 4.7cm (1 7/8in).
All seated, fighting over a peach, one eating a peach which the others try to wrest from him, forming a compact composition in well-patinated and slightly-worn wood, the eyes of pale translucent horn, signed in a long rounded rectangular reserve Toyomasa, rokujugosai (at the age of 65). 4.7cm (1 7/8in).
Footnotes
木彫根付 三匹の猿 銘「豊昌六十五才」 1820年頃
Provenance: Harry Seymour Trower collection, published in the Catalogue, no.31, pl.IX.
J. G. Dalgleish collection.
W. W. Winkworth collection.
Mark Severin collection.
Published: The Meinertzhagen Card Index, p.952.
Rosemary Bandini, ibid., p.88, no.125.
The inscription on the netsuke states that it was made by Toyomasa at the age of 65.
Saleroom notices
Please note that the date of this netsuke should read 1837, and not 1820, as erroneously recorded in the catalogue.