18TH AND 19TH CENTURY
Details
Two red tsuishu lacquer netsuke and two others
18th and 19th Century
Of a karako wearing a Chinese robe, his arms around a large sack; a scholar's table decorated with a landscape; a finely rendered seagull floating on waves, decorated in gold and silver iroe hiramakie on a fundame ground, red coral beak, chips and rubbing; and a seated karako beating a drum, decorated in gold and iroe hiramakie, his face, hands and the drumstick in ivory, signed Minsai
1½in. (3.9cm.), 1½in. (3.8cm.), 1 5/8in. (4.2cm.) wide and 1¼in. (3cm.) long respectively (4)
18th and 19th Century
Of a karako wearing a Chinese robe, his arms around a large sack; a scholar's table decorated with a landscape; a finely rendered seagull floating on waves, decorated in gold and silver iroe hiramakie on a fundame ground, red coral beak, chips and rubbing; and a seated karako beating a drum, decorated in gold and iroe hiramakie, his face, hands and the drumstick in ivory, signed Minsai
1½in. (3.9cm.), 1½in. (3.8cm.), 1 5/8in. (4.2cm.) wide and 1¼in. (3cm.) long respectively (4)
Provenance
Tomkinson Collection n. 343.
Sale room notice
The illustration for this lot has been wrongly numbered on page 127 as lot number 567.