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.
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.