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A FINE WOOD NETSUKE OF A SNAIL Provenance
By Naito Toyomasa (1773-1856), Tanba Province, Joseph Kurstin collection.
Edo period (1615-1868), early-mid 19th century
Emerging from its shell and bending back over the top, its optic feelers Published
fully extended and the fleshy part of the body trailing beneath, forming Barbra Teri Okada and Mary Gardner Neill, Real and Imaginary Beings,
the himotoshi, the body carved all over with ukibori pimples and The Netsuke Collection of Joseph and Edith Kurstin, New Haven, Yale
the pale wood slightly worn; signed in a rectangular reserve Tanshu University Art Gallery, 1980, no.66.
Sasayama no ju Toyomasa, rokujuni-sai saku (made by Toyomasa,
living in Sasayama, Tanba Province, at the age of 62). For a very similar example, see Rosemary Bandini, Shishi and Other
4.2cm (1 5/8in) wide. Netsuke: The Collection of Harriet Szechenyi, London, 1999, p.130,
no.189.
£40,000 - 60,000
JPY5,900,000 - 8,900,000
US$53,000 - 79,000

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