EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY), SIGNED GANBUN (JIKAN GANBUN)

Details

A CARVED WOOD AND METAL-INLAID NETSUKE OF MUSHROOMS
EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY), SIGNED GANBUN (JIKAN GANBUN)
Of a fine group of mushrooms, inlaid in lead and gilt metal with ants and patches of mould; silver inlaid signature tablet on underside
1 5⁄8 in. (4.1 cm.) wide

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, 2 September 1993, lot 9, by repute

Literature

G. Lazarnick, Netsuke and Inro Artists, and How to Read Their Signatures (Honolulu: 1982). Pp. 374 and colour p. 77.
I.N.C.S. Journal, Vol. 6, no. 3 and on front cover

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