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PROPERTY FROM A PRINCELY COLLECTION
A CARVED WOOD SCULPTURE (NETSUKE) OF PICKLED CUCUMBERS AND SNOW PEA
TAISHO-SHOWA PERIOD (20TH CENTURY), SIGNED GYOKUSO TO (OUCHI GYOKUSO; 1879-1944)
Details
A CARVED WOOD SCULPTURE (NETSUKE) OF PICKLED CUCUMBERS AND SNOW PEA
TAISHO-SHOWA PERIOD (20TH CENTURY), SIGNED GYOKUSO TO (OUCHI GYOKUSO; 1879-1944)
Carved as a netsuke of three pickled cucumbers stained in dark olive green with inlaid details of black spots, signed to a snow pea-shaped plaque on reverse
1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm.) long
TAISHO-SHOWA PERIOD (20TH CENTURY), SIGNED GYOKUSO TO (OUCHI GYOKUSO; 1879-1944)
Carved as a netsuke of three pickled cucumbers stained in dark olive green with inlaid details of black spots, signed to a snow pea-shaped plaque on reverse
1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm.) long
Provenance
Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection
Bluette H. Kirchhoff Collection
Bonhams New York, 16 September 2009, lot 2048
Bluette H. Kirchhoff Collection
Bonhams New York, 16 September 2009, lot 2048
Literature
Robert Fleischel, So School Netsuke (Tokyo: Yabane, 1998). exh. cat. no. 91.
Raymond Bushell, Collectors' Netsuke (New York: Weatherhill, 1971). no. 261.
Kobijutsu Rokusho vol. 27 (1991), 62.
Raymond Bushell, Collectors' Netsuke (New York: Weatherhill, 1971). no. 261.
Kobijutsu Rokusho vol. 27 (1991), 62.
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