A CARVED GOLD NETSUKE OF THREE WISE MONKEYS

SHOWA PERIOD (DATED 1937), SIGNED MORIYOSHI (KOBAYASHI MORIYOSHI)

Details

A CARVED GOLD NETSUKE OF THREE WISE MONKEYS
SHOWA PERIOD (DATED 1937), SIGNED MORIYOSHI (KOBAYASHI MORIYOSHI)
Finely carved as three wise monkeys seated on leaves and covering the others' eyes, ears or mouth, eyes inlaid in shakudo, the details finely chiseled, signature on base
1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm.) long

Literature

Kuo Hong-Sheng and Chang Yuan-Feng, chief eds. et al., Meiji no bi / Splendid Beauty: Illustrious Crafts of the Meiji Period (Taipei: National Taiwan Normal University Research Center for Conservation of Cultural Relics, 2013), pp. 454-455.

Exhibited

“Meiji Kogei: Amazing Japanese Art,” cat. no. 120, shown at the following venues:
Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku Bijutsukan (Tokyo University of the Arts Museum), 2016.9.7-10.30
Hosomi Bijutsukan (Hosomi Museum, Kyoto), 2016.11.12-12.25
Kawagoe Shiritsu Bijutsukan (Kawagoe City Art Museum), 2017.4.22-6.11

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Lot Essay

Tokyo based artist Moriyoshi was a son of Kobayashi Moriaki who learned metal-work under Unno Yoshimori (1864-1919). He was active in the Taisho and Showa periods and is known for metal works worked in gold, silver and shibuichi (copper alloy).

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