Lot Essay
The artist, Hara Shumin, was a pupil of Shugetsu I and excelled in carving figures and animals out of boxwood. He often ringed the himotoshi with green stained ivory as is seen on this example
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A WOOD NETSUKE OF A SEATED DARUMA BY SHUMIN
His ear-rings in ivory and the himotoshi ringed with ivory and green stained ivory (some damags), signed Shumin, 19th century
4.3cm. wide
His ear-rings in ivory and the himotoshi ringed with ivory and green stained ivory (some damags), signed Shumin, 19th century
4.3cm. wide