Lot Essay
For a virtually identical bucket and snail netsuke see George Lazarnick, Netsuke and Inro Artists, and How To Read Their Signatures (Honolulu: Reed Publishers, 1981), Vol. II, p. 946
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A WOOD NETSUKE
EDO PERIOD (EARLY 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED SHIGEMASA ZO
Carved in the form of an overturned wood bucket and a large snail, the himotoshi formed by the curved body of the snail, signed on the flat bottom of the bucket--1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm.) high
EDO PERIOD (EARLY 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED SHIGEMASA ZO
Carved in the form of an overturned wood bucket and a large snail, the himotoshi formed by the curved body of the snail, signed on the flat bottom of the bucket--1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm.) high