LATE EDO/MEIJI PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

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TWO BOXWOOD NETSUKE
Late Edo/Meiji Period (19th Century)
A netsuke of a cicada clutched on a twig, the details finely rendered, the natural himotoshi formed by the legs and the branch, signed on the end of the branch forming an oval reserve Harumitsu; and another of two mantis copulating on a branch, details of the wings and embryo in horn, signed below the himotoshi on the branch Akihide in a rectangular reserve, inlaid eyes with one inlay missing
2 3/8in. (7.2cm.) and 2in. (5.2cm.) long respectively (2)

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Lot Essay

For similar examples to the netsuke by Harumitsu, see George Lazarnick, Netsuke and Inro Artists and How to Read Their Signatures, vol. I (Honolulu, 1982), p. 449 and Frederic Meinertzhagen, MCI, The Meinertzhagen Card Index on Netsuke in the Archives of the British Museum, vol. I (George Lazarnick ed.; New York, 1986), p.128.

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