Lot 21
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AN INLAID WOOD AND IVORY NETSUKE
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AN INLAID WOOD AND IVORY NETSUKE

SEALED BAIRYU, MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

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AN INLAID WOOD AND IVORY NETSUKE
Sealed Bairyu, Meiji Period (late 19th century)
Of Hotei with his hand raised above his head; the robe of dark wood; the face, torso, hand, feet and sash of ivory; the bracelets, necklace, and sagemono of various inlays; sealed Bairyu on a silver tablet on the base
1½in. (3.8cm.) high
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Lot Essay

The seal Bairyu was used by the Edo school master Tokoku and is usually on a inlaid metal plaque. This netsuke is typical of his work and it is very similar to another signed Meikei Hojitsu1, whose work inspired Tokoku2.

1 For a very similar example signed Meikei Hojitsu, see Raymond Bushell (adapted from the Japanese by), The netsuke Handbook of Ueda Reikichi (Tokyo, 1961), no. 182, p. 180.
2 George Lazarnick, Netsuke and Inro Artists and How to Read Their Signatures (Honolulu, 1982), vol. II, p. 1103.

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