Details
An ivory netsuke
Late 19th Century
Depicting Yasumasa playing his flute and thus preventing his brother Kidomaru who was overwhelmed by the beauty of the music, to kill him, signed Kohosai
5.3 cm. high
Late 19th Century
Depicting Yasumasa playing his flute and thus preventing his brother Kidomaru who was overwhelmed by the beauty of the music, to kill him, signed Kohosai
5.3 cm. high
Provenance
Ex Collection Lorber.
Registered in the Meinertzhagen Card Index, British Museum, Card ill. Lazarnick (MCI) S. 355.
Registered in the Meinertzhagen Card Index, British Museum, Card ill. Lazarnick (MCI) S. 355.
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