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116. 116Y Ф IVORY NETSUKE REPRESENTING A SHISHI
By Mitsuharu…
See original version (French)
116
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116. 116Y Ф IVORY NETSUKE REPRESENTING A SHISHI
By Mitsuharu…
See original version (French)
Estimate €6,000 - €8,000
Voluntary lot
Description
116. 116Y Ф IVORY NETSUKE REPRESENTING A SHISHI
By Mitsuharu, Kyoto, late 18th/early 19th century
AN IVORY NETSUKE OF A SHISHI
By Mitsuharu, Kyoto, late 18th/early 19th century
Seated, with its head turned back over his shoulder to the left, mouth open baring impressive fangs, clutching a ball with three paws, spiritedly rendered in slightly-worn and well-toned ivory, the eye pupils inlaid with dark horn; signed in an oval reserve Mitsuharu.
5 cm (2 in.) high
Provenance:
Joseph and Edith Kurstin Collection.
Burton and Teri Krouner Collection.
Bonhams London, 8 November 2011, lot 17.
Published:
Barbra Teri Okada and Mary Gardner Neill, Real and Imaginary Beings: The Netsuke Collection of J. and E. Kurstin, Yale University Art Gallery, 1980, cat. no. 6.
Rosemary Bandini, Shishi and Other Netsuke: The Collection of Harriet Szechenyi, London, 1999, p. 15, no. 17.
Exhibited:
Yale University Art Gallery, 1980.
象牙彫根付 珠取獅子 銘「光春」 18世紀後期/19世紀前期
For a discussion on the shishi netsuke of Mitsuharu by Vlad Bykoriz, see the International Netsuke Society Journal, Winter 2011, vol. 30, no. 4, pp.16-20.
This ivory lot is accompanied by an intra-community certificate (CIC) number FR2607505248-K valid only within the European Union.
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