Lot 260
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AN IVORY NETSUKE

Details
AN IVORY NETSUKE
EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY), ATTRIBUTED TO GECHU

Modelled in the form of a man standing in loose robes holding one hand to his long, curled hair and the other on the head of a dog, the dog looking up at the man and balancing two paws on a reticulated tabouret, the details of the figure and the animal carefully carved in relief and details etched and stained- 2 5/8 in. (6.8 cm.) high, hairline age crack

Lot Essay

Compare the treatment of the dog's head to that of the cub in the famous Gechu shishi and cub netsuke in the Hindson collection, (Neil K. Davey, Netsuke, Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications, [London, 1974], p. 28, no. 44).