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A WOOD NETSUKE OF A GOAT
By Tomotada, Kyoto, late 18th/early 19th century
Signed in a rectangular reserve Tomotada.
6.7cm (2 5/8in) high.

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

木彫根付 山羊 銘「友忠」 18世紀後期/19世紀前期

Provenance:
Col. E. H. Baker collection.
Frederick Meinertzhagen collection.
Cecil Crookes collection.
Sold at Glendining & Co. Ltd., London, 1937.

Published:
Joly, Henri L. and Kumasaka Tomita, JAH, no.71, illus.pl.XLIX.
Meinertzhagen, MCI, p.916.
Sydney L. Moss Ltd., Netsuke, November 1974, no.55.
Katchen, N7, vol.1, p.57, no.K49.

Exhibited:
The Red Cross Exhibition, London, 1915.

Seated, looking up and with its legs together, its shaggy coat falling in
heavy tresses over its body, the wood with a fine patina and the pupils
inlaid.

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