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SIGNED JIKAN GANBUN, EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
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Signed Jikan Ganbun, Edo Period (19th Century)
Of naturally curved form, the cedar-wood box with a pewter snail and carved horn shell along with five inlaid silver, shakudo and iron ants and ant holes, signed on a metal inlaid tablet Jikan Ganbun, with attached netsuke in the form of a chestnut, with ants and an inlaid ivory worm, signed Jikan Ganbun
13.4cm. wide
Signed Jikan Ganbun, Edo Period (19th Century)
Of naturally curved form, the cedar-wood box with a pewter snail and carved horn shell along with five inlaid silver, shakudo and iron ants and ant holes, signed on a metal inlaid tablet Jikan Ganbun, with attached netsuke in the form of a chestnut, with ants and an inlaid ivory worm, signed Jikan Ganbun
13.4cm. wide
Literature
George Lazarnick, Netsuke and Inro Artists and How to Read Their Signatures (Honolulu, 1982), p. 377.
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