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A BOXWOOD NETSUKE OF A GRAZING HORSE
Early 19th century
Unsigned.
6.7cm (2 5/8in) high.

£10,000 - 15,000
JPY1,500,000 - 2,200,000
US$14,000 - 21,000

木彫根付 馬 無銘 19世紀前期

Provenance:
Purchased in Paris, 1961.

Published:
Katchen, N7, vol.2, p.363, no.K155.

Standing with its hooves together, its head bowed down to the left
and its tail passing around the hind legs, the slightly worn wood with a
good patina.

For a large study of a horse carved in a similar manner, see Earle, NFR,
p.312.

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