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PROPERTY FROM A PRINCELY COLLECTION
A CARVED WOOD SCULPTURE (NETSUKE) OF A MOUSE
TAISHO-SHOWA PERIOD (20TH CENTURY), SIGNED SOKO (MORITA SOKO; 1879-1943)
Details
A CARVED WOOD SCULPTURE (NETSUKE) OF A MOUSE
TAISHO-SHOWA PERIOD (20TH CENTURY), SIGNED SOKO (MORITA SOKO; 1879-1943)
Carved as a mouse eating a ear of rice sitting on a cover of a straw rice bale (sandawara), signed to underside
1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm.)
TAISHO-SHOWA PERIOD (20TH CENTURY), SIGNED SOKO (MORITA SOKO; 1879-1943)
Carved as a mouse eating a ear of rice sitting on a cover of a straw rice bale (sandawara), signed to underside
1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm.)
Provenance
Bluette H. Kirchhoff Collection
Bonhams New York, 16 September 2009, lot 2067
Bonhams New York, 16 September 2009, lot 2067
Literature
Robert Fleischel, So School Netsuke (Tokyo: Yabane, 1998). no. 28.
Kobijutsu Rokusho vol. 27 (2005), 28.
Kobijutsu Rokusho vol. 27 (2005), 28.
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