Lot Essay
A similar netsuke is illustrated in Coullery/Newstead, The Baur Collection, Netsuke (Geneva 1977), p. 192, C472
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A WOOD NETSUKE
Modelled as two tsuba, one round and the other square with canted corners, the latter engraved and inlaid with willow branches, an insect cage and a butterfly (some old wear), unsigned, 19th century
5.8cm. wide
Modelled as two tsuba, one round and the other square with canted corners, the latter engraved and inlaid with willow branches, an insect cage and a butterfly (some old wear), unsigned, 19th century
5.8cm. wide