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A BOXWOOD NETSUKE OF A FROG ON DRIFTWOOD A BOXWOOD NETSUKE OF A FROG ON ROTTEN WOOD
By Mitani Goho, Aki Province, late 18th/early 19th century By Mitani Goho, Aki Province, late 18th/early 19th century
The finely detailed frog squatting on an an irregular piece of weathered The pimply-skinned frog climbing onto a large piece of striated rotten
and deeply striated wood, signed with ukibori characters Nitto Geiyo wood of pronounced grain, pushing itself up with one extended rear leg,
Goho Kotsu saku (made by Goho Kotsu of Aki in Japan). its skin meticulously worked in ukibori, the slightly worn wood bearing a
4.5cm (1¾in). good patina and the eyes inlaid in dark horn, signed Goho.
6.3cm (2½in).
£4,000 - 4,500
JPY580,000 - 650,000 £6,000 - 8,000
US$5,200 - 5,900 JPY870,000 - 1,200,000
US$7,900 - 10,000
黄楊彫根付 流木に蛙 銘 「日東芸陽五鳳公通作」
18世紀後期/19世紀前期 黄楊彫根付 朽木に蛙 銘 「五鳳」 18世紀後期/19世紀前期

Provenance: Provenance:
Anne Hull Grundy Collection. M. T. Hindson Collection.
Anne Hull Grundy Collection.
Published:
Hull Grundy, NCIS, figs.54-60. Published:
Lazarnick, SBAP, p.158. Hull Grundy, NCIS, fig.61.
Lazarnick, NIA, p.408. Davey, MTH, p.252, no.779.
Ducros, NS, p.94, no.198. Lazarnick, NIA, p.409.
Rokusho 20, p.53, no.68. Meinertzhagen, MCI, vol.1, p.83.
Burditt, ICGG, p.44, fig.21 Rokusho 20, p.58, no.79.
Earle, Huthart, p.184, no.158. Earle, Huthart, p.186, no.160.

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A BOXWOOD NETSUKE OF A FROG ON DRIFTWOOD A BOXWOOD NETSUKE OF A FROG ON A LOTUS POD
By Mitani Goho, Aki Province, 1809 By Mitani Goho, Aki Province, late 18th/early 19th century
The frog squatting on an old, weathered piece of driftwood, facing The frog clambering onto the top of a lotus-seed pod, one trailing leg
ahead and with one foot resting on the edge of a hole in the wood, resting on the stalk, the seeds inlaid in ebony, the frog’s skin rendered
its skin covered with ukibori pimples and its eyes inlaid, signed Bunka with ukibori pimples and the skin of the pod carved with ukibori pimples
tsuchinoto-mi Aki Goho (Goho, autumn of the tsuchinoto-mi year of and veins, signed Goho.
Bunka [1809]). 4.2cm (1 5/8in).
5.2cm (2in).
£4,500 - 5,000
£5,000 - 6,000 JPY650,000 - 730,000
JPY730,000 - 870,000 US$5,900 - 6,600
US$6,600 - 7,900
黄楊・黒柿彫根付 蓮根に乗る蛙 銘 「五鳳 」
黄楊彫根付 流木に蛙 銘 「文化己巳秋五鳳」 1809年 18世紀後期/19世紀前期

Provenance: Published:
Anne Hull Grundy Collection. Lazarnick, NIA, p.411.
Rokusho 20, p.56, no.75.
Published: Burditt, ICGG, p.43, fig.15.
Ducros, NS, p.94, no.196. Earle, Huthart, p.186, no.161.
Rokusho 20, p.58, no.78.
Burditt, ICGG, p.44, figs. 22-23.
Earle, Huthart, p.184, no.159.

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