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AN ENGLISH COLLECTION OF NETSUKE FORMED IN THE 1950'S - 1970'S FROM HISTORIC LONDON SALES INCLUDING THE HINDSON COLLECTION

A RARE WOOD NETSUKE

SIGNED ATOKAMA, EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)

Details

A RARE WOOD NETSUKE
SIGNED ATOKAMA, EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
Kwanyu holding his halberd
6.5cm. high

Provenance

F. Meinertzhagen
W.W. Winkworth
M.T. Hindson

Literature

N.K. Davey, Netsuke, (London, 1982) p.284 no. 863
George Lazernick, Netsuke and Inro Artists, and How to Read Their Signatures, (Honolulu, 1981), p.298, with a drawing from Meinertzhagen card index of the British Museum (see above)

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Illustrated in George Lazernick Netsuke and Inro Artists, and How to Read Their Signatures, (Honolulu, 1981), p.298, with a drawing from card index

For a discussion on the subject of this netsuke, see Joe Earle, Netsuke: Fantasy and Reality in Japanese Miniature Sculpture (Boston, 2001), pl.41, where he mentions that the figure is based on the image of Kwanyu found volume seven of Ehon shaho bukuro illustrated by Tachibana Morikuni (1720) (see left)

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