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A PAINTED WOOD SASHI NETSUKE OF A RUNNING HARE A LACQUERED-WOOD NETSUKE OF A HIRYU (FLYING
Late 19th century DRAGON)
Unsigned. 18th century
18.6cm (7 3/8in) long. Unsigned.
10.1cm (4in) wide.
£600 - 800
JPY87,000 - 120,000 £2,500 - 3,500
US$830 - 1,100 JPY360,000 - 510,000
US$3,400 - 4,800
木彫差し根付 兎 無銘 19世紀後期
木彫漆塗根付 飛竜 無銘 18世紀
Provenance:
Felix Tikotin collection. Provenance:
Lt. Col. J. B. Gaskell collection, no.1102.
Published: W. W. Winkworth collection, purchased 1960.
Katchen, N7, vol.2, p.359, no.K187.
Published:
The elongated creature shown running, facing ahead, its hind legs Katchen, N7, vol.2, p.429, no.K95.
stretched out and its forelegs drawn in for compactness, the soft wood
painted white with red highlights. Of squat form, the short scaly body with wide open mouth and fin-like
wings, the tail curled forward for compactness, carved in light wood
The work, carved slightly in Ittobori, is in the style of Bushoan Tessen and lacquered red with traces of gilding.
or Morikawa Toen, working in the late 19th century. For a study of a
hare in similar attitude by the former, see Lazarnick, NIA, p.1093; and Similar models carved in ivory are recorded in Davey, MTH, p.321,
for a netsuke of running horse by Toen, ibid., p.1096. no.984 and in wood, ibid, p.377, no.1130, and Meinertzhagen, MCI,
p.1024.

The hiryu is a flying dragon fish, sometimes miscalled a makatsugyo
(dragon-fish) or shachihoko (flying dragon) and the subject is illustrated
with a drawing in Inaba, SK, where it is clearly titled hiryu.

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