SIGNED IKKYU, EDO PERIOD (MID 19TH CENTURY)

Details

A WOOD NETSUKE
SIGNED IKKYU, EDO PERIOD (MID 19TH CENTURY)
An amusing group of an owl perched on a gnarled branch, its young hiding in creeper, inset in ivory and movable, eyes inlaid in mother-of-pearl, with museum number in red
3.2cm. high

Provenance

The Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh USA

Literature

François Storno, Le Netzké Errant, (Geneva, 2005), fig.72

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This popular subject appears to be derived from illustrations in Ehon shaho bukuro (1720 and 1770), a work which is already well known as a source of lacquer designs.1

1. Joe Earle, Netsuke: Fantasy and Reality in Japanese Miniature Sculpture, (Boston, 2001), p.251 and 252

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