A Wood Netsuke

SIGNED MASAKAZU, EDO PERIOD (MID/LATE 18TH CENTURY)

細節

A Wood Netsuke
Signed Masakazu, Edo Period (Mid/Late 18th Century)
Katabori, stained boxwood; a compact and worn model of a mythical Chinese beast, probably a kirin, its head turned to the right, the recesses of the carving heavily stained, the tail extended underneath the body, the himotoshi formed by a small hole in the base connecting with one in the side, signed in incised and stained characters on the tail Masakazu
1 3/16 x 1 5/8in. (3.0 x 4.2cm.)

拍品專文

Lazarnick, quoting Meinertzhagen, lists several artists with this name, none of whom appear to correspond with the maker of this powerful eighteenth-century model.¹

1 George Lazarnick, Netsuke and Inro Artists and How to Read Their Signatures (Honolulu: Privately Printed, 1982), p. 708.