A LACQUER SQUARE HAKO-NETSUKE
A LACQUER SQUARE HAKO-NETSUKE
A LACQUER SQUARE HAKO-NETSUKE
A LACQUER SQUARE HAKO-NETSUKE
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A LACQUER SQUARE HAKO-NETSUKE

MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED TOSHINAGA SAKU, ZESHIN SHA (SHIBATA ZESHIN; 1807-1891) AFTER TOSHINAGA (EDO PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY)

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A LACQUER SQUARE HAKO-NETSUKE
MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED TOSHINAGA SAKU, ZESHIN SHA (SHIBATA ZESHIN; 1807-1891) AFTER TOSHINAGA (EDO PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY)
The square hako-netsuke with rounded corners, decorated to simulate the metal work by Yukinaga worked in polychrome hiramaki-e and takamaki-e with a hare looking at moon on a shibuichi-nuri ground, with incised bamboo and river, the sides and underside in brown lacquer with incised bamboo and rock; signed on underside
1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm.) long
Provenance
‌Christie's London, 1968
‌Edward Wrangham Collection
‌Bonhams London, 9 November 2010, lot 143
Literature
Bernard Hirtig, Masterpieces of Netsuke Art (New York: Wheatherhill, 1973). no. 208, no.8.
‌The Netsuke Kenkyukai Study Journal, vol. 12 no.1 (International Netsuke Society, 1992) p.33.

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