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A MARINE IVORY NETSUKE OF BENKEI A WOOD NETSUKE OF KYOYU A WOOD NETSUKE
Style of Ogasawara Issai, By Hidemasa, Osaka, 19th century OF ONO NO KOMACHI
late 18th/early 19th century Signed Hidemasa. By Masakazu, Gifu, Mino Province,
Unsigned. 3.8cm (1½in) high. 19th century
6cm (2 3/8in) wide. Signed in an oval reserve Masakazu.
£1,500 - 2,000 3.2cm (1¼in) high.
£1,000 - 1,500 JPY220,000 - 290,000
JPY150,000 - 220,000 US$2,100 - 2,800 £800 - 1,200
US$1,400 - 2,100 JPY120,000 - 170,000
木彫根付 許由 銘「秀正」 19世紀 US$1,100 - 1,700
海象牙彫根付 弁慶 無銘
18世紀後期/19世紀前期 Published: 木彫根付 小野小町 銘「正一」 19世紀
Katchen, N7, vol.1, p.197, no.K813.
Published: Published:
Katchen, N7, vol.2, p.341, no.K672. The Chinese sage Xuyou (Kyoyu) seated, Katchen, N7, vol.2, p.69, no.K949.
leaning to one side as he cleans one ear,
The hero seated in a large conch shell, the wood slightly worn and of good tone. In later life, she kneels, looking to her right,
wearing a yamabushi skull cap and blowing holding a bamboo cane in one hand and with
a conch while holding a rattle with one hand, Xuyou (Kyoyu) and his companion Chaofu her broad straw hat slung on her back, the
the slightly worn hard ivory of good colour. (Sofu) were legendary Chinese sages, the well-patinated wood slightly worn.
former having been a counsellor of Emperor
For a very similar example signed Issai, see Yao in the semi-mythological age of Chinese A similar example, signed Masahiro is
the catalogue of Joly, WLB, no.1159, illus. history, circa 2356 BC. When Yao suggested illustrated in Bushell, NH, p.176, no.173, sold
pl.XX. he abdicate in favour of Xuyou, he declined and at Christie’s, London, 27 October 1987, lot 7.
washed his ears in a nearby waterfall, to clean
out any aural temptation he might have heard.

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