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A WOOD NETSUKE OF A FAMILY OF CHICKENS A WOOD NETSUKE OF A WILD DOG (YAMA-INU)
By Kaigyokusai Masatsugu or Kaigyokudo Masateru, Osaka, By Tomotada, Kyoto, Edo period (1615-1868),
late 19th century late 18th/early 19th century
Signed Kaigyokudo. Signed in a rectangular reserve Tomotada.
3.8cm (1½in) wide. 4.2cm (1 5/8in) wide.

£3,000 - 4,000 £6,000 - 8,000
JPY440,000 - 580,000 JPY900,000 - 1,200,000
US$4,100 - 5,500 US$8,500 - 11,000

木彫根付 親子鶏 銘「懐玉堂」 19世紀後期 木彫根付 山犬 銘「友忠」 18世紀後期/19世紀後期

Provenance: Provenance:
Purchased at Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 1977. Purchased at Hauswedell and Nolte, Hamburg, 1966.
Julius and Arlette Katchen collection.
Published:
B. Hurtig, ‘Kaigyokusai Masatsugu’ in Journal of the International Published:
Netsuke Collectors Society, vol.1, no.4, p.20, fig.39. Katchen, N7, vol.1, p.79. no.K468.
Lazarnick, NIA, p.564.
Katchen, N7, vol.1, p.121, no.K7. Seated, leaning forward and licking its raised left leg, the wood slightly
worn and the eyes inlaid in ivory with dark pupils.
Showing a cockerel seated on large vegetable leaves while a hen
pecks at his side, a small chick balancing on her back, the lightly Tomotada appears to have made a large number of netsuke depicting
stained boxwood slightly worn and of a good colour, the eyes inlaid. wild dogs or wolves, generally depicting the creature with a captured
crab or the haunch of a deer, although studies of the animal without
For a similar example signed Kaigyoku, see Barry Davies Oriental Art, either are rare. A similar example is illustrated in the exhibition
RSH, London, 1998, no.46. catalogue, Netsuke, Edo Saimitsu Kogei no Hana (Netsuke: Flower of
Miniature Crafts in Edo), Nihon Netsuke Kenkyukai, Tokyo, 1995, p.55,
no.32.

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