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A WOOD NETSUKE OF A SABRE-TOOTHED TIGER
By Naito Toyomasa (1773-1856), Tanba Province, early 19th century
Signed in a long oval reserve Toyomasa.
4.2cm (1 5/8in) wide.

£20,000 - 30,000
JPY2,900,000 - 4,400,000
US$28,000 - 41,000

木彫根付 虎 銘「豊昌」 19世紀前期

Provenance:
Purchased at Hauswedell and Nolte, Hamburg, 1963.

Published:
Katchen, N7, vol.2, p.165, no.K312 (the signature transposed with
no.K311).

Seated, its head turned back to the left and its tail passing forward
over the back, the legs drawn in for compactness, one forming the
himotoshi, the well-patinated wood with a typical stain and the eyes
typically inlaid in pale translucent horn and two protruding teeth of
marine ivory.

For very similar examples by Naito Toyomasa, see Lazarnick, NIA,
p.1192 and INSJ, vol.20, no.4, Winter 2000, fig.1 (property of the
Naito family).

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
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