Sale 6614
London
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14 November 2001
Price realised
GBP 7,638
Estimate
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.)
Provenance
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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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