Signed Kaigyokusai Masatsugu (1813-1892), Osaka, Edo period (19th century)

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A Fine Ivory Netsuke of a Sleeping Wild Boar
Signed Kaigyokusai Masatsugu (1813-1892), Osaka, Edo period (19th century)
The boar resting on a bed of autumn leaves with grasses draped gracefully over its back, rockwork beside and the grasses with dewdrops of applied silver, pale and dark cow horn, the fur and other details rendered using very fine incised and stained lines
4.5 cm. long

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Lot Essay

For similar examples of wild boar by Kaigyokusai, see:
George Lazarnick, Netsuke and Inro Artists and How to Read Their Signatures, (Honolulu, 1982), vol. I, p. 561
Joe Earle, Netsuke: Fantasy and Reality in Japanese Miniature Sculpture, (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2001), p. 331, no. 300

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