Lot 233
233
A SOFT-METAL NETSUKE

Details
A SOFT-METAL NETSUKE
signed natsuo and sealed koi [kano natsuo (1828-1890)]

Cast in the model of an oshidori (Mandarin duck) in copper with silver and then outer-gold patinations, the pupils of the eyes shakudo, signed on the underside beside two webbed feet which enclose the himotoshi--1¾in. (4.5cm.) long, ¾in. (3.3cm.) high

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Melvin and Betty Jahss, Inro and Other Miniature Forms of Japanese Lacquer Art (Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, Co., 1971), pl. 189
George Lazarnick, Netsuke & Inro Artists, and How To Read Their Signatures (Honolulu: Reed Publishers, 1982), Vol. I, p. 827