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A BOXWOOD NETSUKE OF A KIRIN A BOXWOOD NETSUKE OF A PANGOLIN
Kyoto, late 18th century By Michael Webb (1934-2011), Yorkshire, England, dated 1983
Seated on its haunches, its long neck twisted and its head raised as it The scaly creature climbing onto a large tree stump, its head lowered
bays to the sky, its single horn and its ears drawn back over its neck and its tail trailing over the side, the pupils inlaid, signed MJW carved
joining its long erect tail, flames licking up the sides of its scaly body, at Cropton in the county of York, April, 1983.
the slightly-worn wood bearing a good patina and the pupils inlaid, 4.5cm (1¾in).
unsigned, with a wood storage box.
10.2cm (4in) high. (2). £1,000 - 1,500
JPY150,000 - 220,000
£10,000 - 15,000 US$1,300 - 2,000
JPY1,500,000 - 2,200,000
US$13,000 - 20,000 黄楊彫根付 穿山甲 銘 「MJW carved at Cropton in the county
of York, April, 1983」 1983年
黄楊彫根付 麒麟 無銘 18世紀後期

A very similar example from the Adrienne Barbanson Collection was
sold in these rooms, 13 May 2013, lot 43. Two smaller examples of the
subject treated in a similar manner and possibly by the same anonymous
maker have also been recorded. One from the M. T. Hindson Collection,
illustrated by N. Davey, MTH, p.387, no.1160, was subsequently sold in
these rooms, Fine Japanese Art, 10 November 2011, lot 64.
Another is illustrated by B. Okada and M. Neill, RIB, p.30, no.2.

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