SIGNED YASUNOBU, MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

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AN IVORY NETSUKE
SIGNED YASUNOBU, MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)
A finely detailed portrait of Kan'u and Gentoku, the standing figures with well-carved faces and conversational expressions, dark stained details, school of Tomochika
6.4cm. high

出版

François Storno, Le Netzké Errant, (Geneva, 2005), fig.65

注意事項

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

拍品專文

Kan'u and Gentoku are two of the three heroes whose oath of fraternal loyalty forms the background to the plot of Sangokushi, a popular romance chronicling the heroic deeds of some of China's greatest heroes. It is for this reason that they are sometimes depicted together.

For a similar example by Yasunobu see George Lazarnick, Netsuke and Inro Artists and How to Read Their Signatures (Honolulu, 1982), p.1224