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Lot 9

A boar-tusk netsuke
By Jack Coutu (1924-2017), English, carved February/March 2008

16 May 2019, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£1,000 - £1,500

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A boar-tusk netsuke

By Jack Coutu (1924-2017), English, carved February/March 2008
Carved in relief, a dragonfly emerging from its larval shell by a river, its eyes inlaid in pale horn, the broad end plugged with ebony; signed on a silver tablet JC. 12cm (4¾in) long. (2).

Footnotes

Sold together with Jack Coutu's reference card (no.329), on which he states: 'A somewhat overfilled piece and perhaps not as fine as some earlier work. However it has a certain vitality and I have done worse! It is a favourite subject of mine and I carved it as an ivory and ebony netsuke in 1976. No.54.'

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