IVORY ANIMAL NETSUKE
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Lot 28Y
An ivory netsuke of a puppy with ball By Yamaguchi Okatori, Kyoto, early 19th century
7 November 2013, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street£3,000 - £4,000
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By Yamaguchi Okatori, Kyoto, early 19th century
The male pup seated, wearing a knotted collar and resting one forepaw on a kemari (football), the slightly worn ivory is of a good colour, the hair work is lightly stained with sumi and the eyes are inlaid in dark horn, signed in a rectangular reserve Okatori. 4.2cm (1 5/8in).
The male pup seated, wearing a knotted collar and resting one forepaw on a kemari (football), the slightly worn ivory is of a good colour, the hair work is lightly stained with sumi and the eyes are inlaid in dark horn, signed in a rectangular reserve Okatori. 4.2cm (1 5/8in).
Footnotes
Provenance: an Italian private collection.
For a somewhat similar example by Okatori's contemporary, Okatomo, see Sydney L. Moss Ltd., the Exhibition Catalogue, More Things in Heaven and Earth, London, 2006, no.27.
