Lot Essay
Similarities in treatment to those of the Kyoto school suggest that this model may be a product of a Kyoto workshop
Details
TIGER ON A BAMBOO NODE
Ivory, unsigned
19th Century
1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm.) long, in fitted wood box inscribed Ge tora no takegawa netsuke "tusk of tiger and bamboo netsuke"
Ivory, unsigned
19th Century
1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm.) long, in fitted wood box inscribed Ge tora no takegawa netsuke "tusk of tiger and bamboo netsuke"
Literature
Raymond Bushell, Netsuke, An Exhibition of Netsuke from the Raymond Bushell Collection, Mikimoto, Tokyo, 1979, fig. 341