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Collection Karl M. Schwarz (1926 – 2007), Vienna
Lot 436 – 447
436 An ivory netsuke of a toad with Tekkai
Sennin’s soul. Early 19th century
A huge toad exhaling Tekkai Sennin’s soul
while the small sennin figure attempts to
climb up its right hind leg. Finely carved and
engraved, the details stained black, the toad’s
eyes of light horn with black eye pupils.
Inscribed Masatsugu in an oval reserve.
Numerous pieces bearing a similar signature
are listed in the MCI (p. 481).
Provenance
University of Pennsylvania Museum, USA,
acc. no. 23-26-34 (handwritten in black ink)
Literature
Illustrated in: Karl M. Schwarz, Netsuke
Subjects, Vienna 1992, p. 39, no. 50
Netsuke Kenkyukai Study Journal,
vol. 12, no. 4 (1985), p. 31
€ 800 – 900
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