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A WOOD NETSUKE OF A DOG A WOOD NETSUKE A SMALL MARINE IVORY NETSUKE
By Shugetsu, Edo, early 19th century OF A PIEBALD PUPPY OF A PUPPY
Signed Shugetsu. By Matsuda Sukenaga, Takayama, Hida By Rantei, Kyoto, 19th century
4.8cm (1 7/8in) wide. Province, 19th century Signed in an oval reserve Rantei.
Signed Sukenaga. 3.5cm (1 3/8in) wide.
£2,500 - 3,000 3.5cm (1 3/8in) high.
JPY360,000 - 440,000 £800 - 1,000
US$3,400 - 4,100 £800 - 1,000 JPY120,000 - 150,000
JPY120,000 - 150,000 US$1,100 - 1,400
木彫根付 仔犬 銘「舟月」 19世紀前期 US$1,100 - 1,400
海象牙彫根付 仔犬 銘「蘭亭」 19世紀
Provenance: 木彫根付 斑仔犬 銘「亮長」 19世紀
M. T. Hindson collection, purchased at Provenance:
Sotheby’s, London, 1967. Provenance: Felix Tikotin collection.
Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1968.
Published: Published:
Davey, MTH, p.102, no.287. Published: Katchen, N7, vol.1, p.23, no.K55.
Katchen, N7, vol.1, p.221, no.K66. Katchen, N7, vol.2, p.127, no.K77.
Seated, its head raised and turned to the
Recumbent, its head turned slightly to the Seated, its head turned to the left and with right, its legs drawn in for compactness, one
right and holding a peony in its mouth, its legs one foreleg raised, its body covered with forming the himotoshi, the ivory slightly worn
drawn in to form a compact composition, the piebald patches, variously stained, and the and the eyes inlaid with mother-of-pearl.
slightly worn wood bearing a light stain. eyes inlaid in dark horn.

For a very similar example, see Nihon Netsuke
Kenkyukai, Netsuke: gyoshukusareta Edo
bunka (Netsuke, Condensed Culture of Edo),
Tokyo, Bijutsu Shuppansha, 2005, no.58.

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