Live Auction 8822The Japanese Aesthetic
An Ivory Netsuke
Lot 420

An Ivory Netsuke

SIGNED MASATAMI, EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

Closed15 May 2013

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GBP 3,250

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An Ivory Netsuke
Signed Masatami, Edo Period (19th century)
Of an ape and its young on its back, holding a chestnut and branches of persimmons and peaches, eyes inlaid in dark horn, Yamada School
3.6cm. high

Specialist note

For the artist see George Lazarnick, Netsuke and Inro Artists and How to Read Their Signatures (Honolulu, 1982), p.731