Page 100 - Japnese Art Netsuke, Okimono, Lempertz June 2, 2019

470 A wood netsuke of a ripe eggplant. Around 1900

The skin burst open to reveal the fruit, with a fly and
a bug sitting on one of the leaves, inlaid in bone and
mother-of-pearl.
Length 4 cm
€ 300 – 500

470
471 A red lacquer egg-shaped two-part manju.
19th century
Carved with a Chinese sage under a blossoming
prunus tree to one part, and a sage under a tall pine
tree to the other. Black lacquer to the inside and a
copper eylet.
Length 4 cm
Provenance
Private Collection, Rhineland

€ 1.200 – 1.400

471
471A A large ivory two-part peg manjû.
Second half 19th century
Map of the Japanese islands with all the provinces
written in kanji in black-stained engraving. Inscrip-
tion above reading Nanbu daihonshô no Tanshû
nikoku shin zu.
Diameter 5.8 cm
€ 800 – 900

471A
472 A macabre boxwood netsuke of a skull.
20th century

Stylised, with huge eye sockets, two bones
attached to the skull.
Height 4.9 cm

€ 250 – 350

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