AN IVORY NETSUKE

EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY), SIGNED OKATORI

細節

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

來源

Raymond Bushell Collection

拍品專文

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.