A Wood Netsuke

SIGNED ICHIUN (NAGOYA), EDO PERIOD (MID-19TH CENTURY)

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A Wood Netsuke
Signed Ichiun (Nagoya), Edo Period (Mid-19th Century)
Katabori, heavily stained boxwood; a small crisply carved model of a smiling mermaid holding her tail, her long hair delicately incised, several possible himotoshi formed by her left arm and her tail, signed with deeply incised characters in a rectangular reserve Chofu Ichiun [Ichiun of Nagoya]
¾ x 1½in. (1.9 x 3.9cm.)

Lot Essay

Lazarnick records a mermaid signed Ichiun.¹

1 George Lazarnick, Netsuke and Inro Artists and How to Read Their Signatures (Honolulu: Privately Printed, 1982), p. 504.

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