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97. WOODEN MANJU NETSUKE REPRESENTING A DRAGON
By Toyokazu, …
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97
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97. WOODEN MANJU NETSUKE REPRESENTING A DRAGON
By Toyokazu, …
See original version (French)
Estimate €3,000 - €5,000
Voluntary lot
Description
97. WOODEN MANJU NETSUKE REPRESENTING A DRAGON
By Toyokazu, Tanba, 19th century
A WOOD MANJU NETSUKE
By Toyokazu, Tanba, 19th century
Finely carved and pierced with a dragon amid billowing clouds, the wood dark-stained and the one visible eye inlaid with pale translucent horn; signed in an oval reserve Toyokazu.
4.8 cm (1 7/8 in.)
Provenance:
Harriet Szechenyi Collection, Zurich.
Bonhams London, 8 November 2011, lot 102.
木彫饅頭根付 龍 銘「豊一」 19世紀
For an almost identical example from the Frederick Meinertzhagen collection see Frederick Meinertzhagen, The Art of the Netsuke Carver, 1956, no. 68. A very similar example by Naito Toyomasa, is illustrated in Marie-Thérèse Coullery and Martin S. Newstead, The Baur Collection. Netsuke, Geneva, 1977, p. 127, no. C269.
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