A Wood Netsuke

SIGNED SHIGEMASA, EDO PERIOD (EARLY 19TH CENTURY)

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A Wood Netsuke
Signed Shigemasa, Edo Period (Early 19th Century)
Katabori, stained boxwood; a well-carved model of a snail crawling over a pumpkin, its antennae feeling their way down the side, the textures of body, shell and fruit meticulously incised and stained, the himotoshi formed by the stalk, signed with incised and stained characters on a raised rectangular plaque Shigemasa with a kao
1 1/8 x 1 3/8in. (2.8 x 3.5cm.)

Lot Essay

Ueda places this carver after the Kansei era and into the Bunsei era, in other words between about 1800 and 1830, noting that he worked in both wood and ivory, carving animal and human figures.¹

1 Ueda Reikichi, Netsuke no kenkyu [A study of netsuke] (Osaka: Bun'endo, 1943), p. 200.

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