A CARVED WOOD INSHO (SEAL-TYPE) SASHI-NETSUKE
A CARVED WOOD INSHO (SEAL-TYPE) SASHI-NETSUKE
A CARVED WOOD INSHO (SEAL-TYPE) SASHI-NETSUKE
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A CARVED WOOD INSHO (SEAL-TYPE) SASHI-NETSUKE

EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)

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A CARVED WOOD INSHO (SEAL-TYPE) SASHI-NETSUKE
EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
Finely carved in the shape of a mythical creature with the head of shishi (lion-dog) and body of a bird, lower body interwined with a dragon, applied with shakudo himotoshi (cord hole); seal on underside Kita Yasunori
3 ¾ in. (9.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 9 June 1983, lot 69
Literature
The Journal of the International Netsuke Collectors Society, Vol. 3, no. 2, p. 7. Behrens, no. 1518, pl. XXVIII.

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