A Wood Netsuke

SIGNED GYOKUSO, MEIJI PERIOD (EARLY 20TH CENTURY)

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A Wood Netsuke
Signed Gyokuso, Meiji Period (early 20th century)
Of a nobleman's son in finely detailed clothes holding a cockerel, So School
5cm. high

Lot Essay

Gyokuso was a student of his almost exact contemporary Morita Soko.1

1. Sekido Kengo, Morita Soko to sono ippa [Morita Soko and the So school], Rokusho, no.27 (July 1998), pp. 34-35; Ueda Reikichi, Netsuke no kenkyu, (Osaka, 1943), p. 159.

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