AN IVORY NETSUKE

EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY), SIGNED OKATORI

Details
AN IVORY NETSUKE
edo period (19th century), signed okatori
Carved as a seated tiger licking its back paw, the hair finely incised and lightly stained, signed in rectangular cartouche, the eyes inlaid in dark horn
1.5/8in. (4.2cm.) wide
Provenance
Raymond Bushell Collection

Lot Essay

Sold Christie's London, 27 October, 1987, lot 231.

Similar examples are illustrated in Bernard Hurtig, comp., Masterpieces of Netsuke Art (New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1973), no. 972, p. 226; Frederick Meinertzhagen, The Meinertzhagen Card Index on Netsuke in the Archives of the British Museum, Part B, edited by George Lazarnick (New York: Alan R. Liss, Inc., 1986), p. 622.