NETSUKE
The Property from an English private collection
(lots 1-22)
The Property from an English private collection
(lots 1-22)
Lot 5Y
Four wood figural netsuke Edo, 19th century
7 November 2013, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street£1,500 - £2,000
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Edo, 19th century
The first of Hanasaka Jiji seated on a dead tree stump, holding his bowl of magic seeds as ivory blossoms start to appear, signed on an ivory tablet Ryumin, 3.8cm (1½in); the second of a boy playing a flute seated on a grazing ox on a base, inscribed Tomotada, 4.5cm (1¾in); the third of Daruma seated in meditation, signed Shumin, 3.5cm (1 3/8in); the fourth of a blind man trying to lift his huge distended scrotum, signed on a metal tablet Issan, 3.5cm (1 3/8in). (4).
The first of Hanasaka Jiji seated on a dead tree stump, holding his bowl of magic seeds as ivory blossoms start to appear, signed on an ivory tablet Ryumin, 3.8cm (1½in); the second of a boy playing a flute seated on a grazing ox on a base, inscribed Tomotada, 4.5cm (1¾in); the third of Daruma seated in meditation, signed Shumin, 3.5cm (1 3/8in); the fourth of a blind man trying to lift his huge distended scrotum, signed on a metal tablet Issan, 3.5cm (1 3/8in). (4).
Footnotes
Provenance: the first netsuke from the Mark Fletcher collection.
