Lot Essay
For a similar example see Joe Earle, Netsuke: Fantasy and Reality in Japanese Miniature Sculpture, (Boston, 2001), p.201
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EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
Details
AN IVORY NETSUKE
EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
Of a standing horse-faced man, naked but covering himself with a fundoshi
6.7cm. high
EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
Of a standing horse-faced man, naked but covering himself with a fundoshi
6.7cm. high
Provenance
Virginia Atchley
Literature
Sydney L. Moss, Myth, Reality and Magical Transformation, (London, 2000), no.8 François Storno, Le Netzké Errant, (Geneva, 2005), fig.30
Special notice
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