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AN EBONY NETSUKE OF A CENTIPEDE AN EBONY NETSUKE OF A CENTIPEDE ON DRIFTWOOD
EMERGING FROM DRIFTWOOD By Hayashi Gendo, Iwami Province, dated 1789
Iwami Province, dated 1805 The centipede crawling around and over a section of striated and
The large insect crawling over a horizontally striated weathered large weathered driftwood of irregular form, its body and the underside of the
piece of driftwood with an overhanging section, the underside polished wood polished, signed with ukibori characters Kansei gan tsuchinoto-
and rather worn, inscribed with partially illegible ukibori characters tori toshi Sekiyo Kohoku Hayashi Gendo kore o horu (carved by Hayashi
Bunka ni kinoto chuka ... (mid-summer of the second, kinoto, Gendo of Kohoku in Sekiyo in the first, tsuchinoto-tori, year of Kansei
year of Bunka [1805]) with two seals. [1789]). 6.6cm (2 5/8in).
8.5cm (3 3/8in).
£1,500 - 2,000
£1,000 - 1,500 JPY220,000 - 290,000
JPY150,000 - 220,000 US$2,000 - 2,600
US$1,300 - 2,000
黒檀彫根付 流木に蜈蚣 銘 「寛政元己酉年石陽江北林元道彫之」
黒檀彫根付 枯木に蜈蚣 銘 「文化二乙仲夏囗囗」 1805年 1789年

Published: Provenance:
Earle, Huthart, p.332, no.307. George Lazarnick Collection.

Published:
Wenneker, IS, fig.12.
Lazarnick, NIA, pp.79 and 401-2.
Earle, Huthart, p.334, no.308.

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