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The Tony & Johanna Oey Collection of Netsuke
Two Modern Wood Netsuke
Hideyuki (b. 1941) and Michael Webb (b. 1934), 20th century
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Two Modern Wood Netsuke
Hideyuki (b. 1941) and Michael Webb (b. 1934), 20th century
The first of a frog on a banana leaf, eyes inlaid in pale and dark horn, signed in ukibori MW and inscribed Made at Cropton nr York; the second a standing figure of an oni clutching a mask of Shoki to his chest, eyes inlaid in pale and dark cow horn, signed on a gold tablet Hideyuki
4.1 cm. long and 6.9 cm. high respectively
Hideyuki (b. 1941) and Michael Webb (b. 1934), 20th century
The first of a frog on a banana leaf, eyes inlaid in pale and dark horn, signed in ukibori MW and inscribed Made at Cropton nr York; the second a standing figure of an oni clutching a mask of Shoki to his chest, eyes inlaid in pale and dark cow horn, signed on a gold tablet Hideyuki
4.1 cm. long and 6.9 cm. high respectively
Literature
The second, Barry Davies Oriental Art, Netsuke Through Three Centuries, exhibition catalogue, (London, 1996), no. 180, p. 152-3
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