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A RARE SMALL HONEN (HORNBILL) A WOOD NETSUKE OF A SNAKE A WOOD NETSUKE OF A SNAKE
NETSUKE OF A DRAGON 19th century AND TORTOISE
By Ono Ryomin, Edo, late 19th century Inscribed Masanao. By Yukitomo, Gifu, Mino Province,
Signed Ryomin with a kao. 4.2cm (1 5/8in) wide. 19th century
3.2cm (1¼in) wide. Signed in an oval reserve Yukitomo.
£800 - 1,000 3.2cm (1¼in) wide.
£800 - 1,000 JPY120,000 - 150,000
JPY120,000 - 150,000 US$1,100 - 1,400 £1,200 - 1,500
US$1,100 - 1,400 JPY170,000 - 220,000
木彫根付 蛇 銘「正直」 19世紀 US$1,700 - 2,100
サイチョウ嘴彫根付 龍
銘「陵民（花押）」 19世紀後期 Published: 木彫根付 蛇に亀 銘「之友」 19世紀
Katchen, N7, vol.2, p.147, no.K332.
Provenance: Provenance:
W. L. Behrens collection, no.1491. Coiled in several tight loops, its head at the Eskenazi Ltd., London, purchased 1968.
Purchased at Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 1968. top and part of its body forming the himotoshi,
the slightly worn wood of good colour and the Published:
Published: pupils inlaid. Katchen, N7, vol.2, p.115, no.K331.
Meinertzhagen, MCI, p.655 (unillustrated).
Katchen, N7, vol.1, p.211, no.K86. For a somewhat similar example, see Harris, The snake coiled tightly in several loops
HGBM, p.56, no.211. around the tortoise, carved in dark wood,
Coiled with its head turned back to the right which is slightly worn, the eyes inlaid.
on a rectangular base, each side with sunken
panels of diaper designs, the red section of Very little is known of Yukitomo, who is
the bill utilised for the dragon. believed to have lived in Gifu and by whom
only a few examples have been recorded.

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