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A WOOD NETSUKE OF A TIGER
By Tomotada, Kyoto, 18th century
Signed in rectangular reserve Tomotada.
4.5cm (1¾in) wide.

£20,000 - 25,000
JPY2,900,000 - 3,600,000
US$28,000 - 34,000

木彫根付 虎 銘「友忠」 18世紀

Provenance:
Purchased in Berlin, 1959.

Published:
Katchen, N7, vol.1, p.67, no.K288.

Seated, turning to the left as it licks its fore haunch, its right foreleg
raised and its tail sweeping forward over the back, the slightly worn
wood with a good patina and the pupils inlaid.

A very similar example, facing in the opposite direction, is illustrated
in Atchley and Davey, VAC, p.32, no.N10 and in Hurtig, MNA, no.44.
Other examples in ivory by members of the Kyoto group, working in a
similar style, are illustrated in Davey, MTH, p.67, no.171, and Anne Hull
Grundy, ‘Tomotada and Okatomo in Relation to the Kyoto School of
Netsuke Carvers’, Part II, The Antique Collector, Autumn 1963, p.208,
fig.52 (by Okatomo) and fig.53 (by Tomotori).

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