JAPON, FIN XVIIIEME-DEBUT XIXEME SIECLE

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NETSUKE EN BOIS
JAPON, FIN XVIIIEME-DEBUT XIXEME SIECLE
Représentant un Hollandais (ou Hollandaise?) debout, vêtu à l'Occidentale, tenant une trompette dans la main droite, la gauche soutenant l'enfant sur son dos, le visage rieur, les cheveux coiffés en boucles
Hauteur: 8,4 cm. (3 5/16 in.)

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Further details

A WOOD NETSUKE, DUTCHMAN
JAPAN, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Lot Essay

See Two very similar Dutchmen dated 18th century, from the Trumpf collection and illustrated in P. Jirka-Schmitz, Netsuke Gürtelschmuck aus Japan - Die Sammlung Trumpf, Linden-Museum, Stuttgart 2000, p.51, pl.23 and p.52, pl.24
See a related example, although made of ivory, illustrated in Tardy, Les Ivoires, Paris 1977, p.337, pl.2

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