A Wood Netsuke

SIGNED SHUMIN (EDO/TOKYO, D. 1875), EDO PERIOD (EARLY/MID-19TH CENTURY)

細節

A Wood Netsuke
Signed Shumin (Edo/Tokyo, d. 1875), Edo Period (Early/Mid-19th Century)
Katabori, stained boxwood; a delicately modelled cat climbing on the back of a turtle and scratching its head with its right front paw, the himotoshi formed by a very large oval hole and a smaller hole in the underside, signed with incised characters next to the smaller hole Shumin
1 3/16 x 1¼in. (3.0 x 3.1cm.)

拍品專文

Ueda Reikichi places this artist in the third generation after Shugetsu, the Osaka doll-maker who moved to Edo where he became one of the founders of the Edo figural netsuke tradition.

1 Ueda Reikichi, Netsuke no kenkyu [A study of netsuke] (Osaka: Bun'endo, 1943), p. 172.