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AN UNUSUAL BOAR-TUSK NETSUKE WITH A STAG A BOAR-TUSK NETSUKE WITH TWO FLYING BATS
IN A MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPE By Seiyodo Gansui (1809-1848), early 19th century
By Seiyodo Gansui (1809-1848), Iwami Province, dated 1830 Carved in low relief with two bats flying amid the foliage of a gourd vine,
The large tusk carved in relief with a barking stag standing on a crag delicately engraved in kebori, signed Gansui.
beneath an ancient pine tree, signed Oju toki ni Bunsei jusan kanoe-tora 10.8cm (4¼in) long.
fuyu jugatsu Matsudaira Suo no kami ko Iwami-shu (Iwami-no-kuni)
Enokawa no nishi Seiyodo Gansui chokoku (carved west of the Eno River £2,500 - 3,000
in Iwami Province, to the order of Lord Matsudaira, governor of Suo JPY360,000 - 440,000
Province, by Seiyodo Gansui in the thirteenth, kanoe-tora, year of Bunsei US$3,300 - 3,900
[1830]). 13.2cm (5¼in).
猪牙彫根付 蝙蝠 銘 「巌水」 19世紀前期
£2,000 - 2,500
JPY290,000 - 360,000 Provenance:
US$2,600 - 3,300 Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection.
Sold at Christie’s, New York, Part I, 27 October 1987, lot 313.
猪牙彫根付 巌に雄鹿 銘 「応需于時文政十三庚寅冬十月松平周防
守公石見州可愛河西青陽堂巌水彫刻」 1830年 Published:
Rokusho 20, p.35, no.43.
Provenance: Burditt, ICGG, p.39, fig.6.
George Lazarnick Collection. Earle, Huthart, p.157, no.136.

Published:
Lazarnick, NIA, pp.71 and 393.
Burditt, ICGG, p.40, figs.10-11.
Earle, Huthart, p.156, no.135.

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