Lot 14
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A STAINED BOXWOOD NETSUKE
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A STAINED BOXWOOD NETSUKE

SIGNED MASANAO, EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

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A STAINED BOXWOOD NETSUKE
Signed Masanao, Edo Period (19th century)
Of a katatsumuri [snail] finely rendered emerging from its shell, the natural himotoshi formed by the body of the mollusc and the shell, signed on the shell Masanao
1¼in. (3.1cm.) high
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Lot Essay

Masanao of Yamada often used the natural features of his subjects to form the himotoshi1.

1 Raymond Bushell (adapted from the Japanese by), The Netsuke Handbook of Ueda Reikichi (Tokyo, 1961), no.612, p. 257

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