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SIGNED YOSHITOMO (KYOTO), EDO PERIOD (LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY)
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An Ivory Netsuke
Signed Yoshitomo (Kyoto), Edo Period (Late 18th/Early 19th Century)
Katabori, stained ivory; a compact group representing Hotei carrying a Chinese boy, Hotei with very large earlobes supporting the boy with his hands behind his back, his right hand also holding a screen fan, the boy with his left hand on Hotei's head looking over his right shoulder, the robes intricately incised and stained with brocade designs, the himotoshi formed by a hole in Hotei's left sleeve, connecting with another below the boy's left leg, signed with incised and stained characters on a rectangular reserve on the boy's back Yoshitomo
2½ x 1½in. (6.4 x 3.8cm.)
Signed Yoshitomo (Kyoto), Edo Period (Late 18th/Early 19th Century)
Katabori, stained ivory; a compact group representing Hotei carrying a Chinese boy, Hotei with very large earlobes supporting the boy with his hands behind his back, his right hand also holding a screen fan, the boy with his left hand on Hotei's head looking over his right shoulder, the robes intricately incised and stained with brocade designs, the himotoshi formed by a hole in Hotei's left sleeve, connecting with another below the boy's left leg, signed with incised and stained characters on a rectangular reserve on the boy's back Yoshitomo
2½ x 1½in. (6.4 x 3.8cm.)
Literature
Similar Examples: T.E. Beddard Collection; sold in these Rooms 14 April 1969, Lot 60, signed Yoshitomo; George Lazarnick, Netsuke and Inro Artists and How to Read Their Signatures (Honolulu: Privately Printed, 1982), p. 1246.