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JAPAN - Middle EDO period (1603-1868)
Ivory netsuke (elephan…
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93
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JAPAN - Middle EDO period (1603-1868)
Ivory netsuke (elephan…
See original version (French)
Estimate €7,000 - €9,000
Voluntary lot
Description
JAPAN - Middle EDO period (1603-1868)
Ivory netsuke (elephantidae spp.), sitting wolf, fur finely incised, ribs protruding, howling in pain when the crab pinches its paw. The eyes are inlaid. Signed Okatomo.
Height: 4 cm
Provenance: Piasa sale, Paris, 13 November 1998, lot 176.
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