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A BOXWOOD NETSUKE OF A FROG A BOXWOOD NETSUKE OF A FROG AN EBONY NETSUKE OF A SNAKE
ON A TORTOISE ON BAMBOO DEVOURING A FROG
By Mitani Goho, Aki Province, Attributed to Mitani Goho, Aki Province, By Mitani Goho, Aki Province, dated 1811
late 18th/early 19th century late 18th/early 19th century The large snake curled in several loops,
The smooth-skinned tree frog resting, its raised The frog squatting on a short section of clutching the huge frog in its open mouth, the
head bearing an alert expression, on the back bamboo, its head raised and looking alert scales of the former and the skin of the latter
of the tortoise which is almost completely as if about to leap, its body almost covered carved with delicate ukibori details, faintly
enveloped in its shell, the slightly worn wood with ukibori and its eyes inlaid in pale horn, signed with ukibori characters Bunka hachi
bearing a fine patina and the pupils inlaid, unsigned. 4.5cm (1¾in). kanoto-hitsuji juichigatsu hi Nihon koku Aki
signed Goho. 4.6cm (1¾in). Goho (Goho of Aki Province in Japan on a day
£2,500 - 3,000 in the eleventh month of the eighth, kanoto-
£5,000 - 6,000 JPY360,000 - 440,000 hitsuji, year of Bunka [1811]).
JPY730,000 - 870,000 US$3,300 - 3,900 4.5cm (1¾in).
US$6,600 - 7,900
黄楊彫根付 竹に蛙 無銘 £6,000 - 8,000
黄楊彫根付 亀に乗る蛙 銘 「五鳳」 18世紀後期/19世紀前期 JPY870,000 - 1,200,000
18世紀後期/19世紀前期 US$7,900 - 10,000
Provenance:
Provenance: Anne Hull Grundy Collection. 黒檀彫根付 蛙を巻き込む蛇 銘 「文化八
Anne Hull Grundy Collection. 辛未十一月日日本国阿岐五鳳」 1811年
Published:
Published: Hull Grundy, NCIS, figs.62-64. Published:
Lazarnick, MI, fig.2. Earle, Huthart, p.188, no.163. Rokusho 20, p.53, no.69.
Rokusho 20, p.55, no.72. Burditt, ICGG, p.44, fig.24.
Earle, Huthart, p.188, no.162. Earle, Huthart, p.188, no.164.

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