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A WOOD NETSUKE OF TWO DOLPHINS
A WOOD NETSUKE OF A SEAL AND CUB
By Michael Webb (1934-2011), Yorkshire, England, 1989 By Michael Webb (1934-2011), Yorkshire, England, 1988
Signed MJW carved at Cropton near York, April 1989. Signed with ukibori characters, MJW Cropton, May, 1988.
5.7cm (2¼in) wide. 5.4cm (2 1/8in) wide.
£1,200 - 1,500 £1,000 - 1,500
JPY170,000 - 220,000 JPY150,000 - 220,000
US$1,700 - 2,100 US$1,400 - 2,100

木彫根付 海豹親子 銘「MJW carved at Cropton near York, 木彫根付 海豚 銘「MJW Cropton, May, 1988」1988年
April 1989」1989年
Swimming side by side as they leap, their tails overlapping and their
Provenance: eyes inlaid.
Eskenazi Ltd., London, purchased 1990.
A similar group of dolphins was exhibited in an exhibition of Michael
Published: Webb’s work at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England, in 1983,
Katchen, N7, vol.2, p.255, no.K916. illustrated in the catalogue, no.8, and illustrated in Lazarnick, NIA,
p.1212.
The adult resting, her head turned to the right as she rests one flipper
on her recumbent adolescent offspring, the wood typically stained for A netsuke of two sharks in a similar attitude by Michael Webb, from the
effect and the eyes inlaid. Katchen collection, was sold in these rooms, 10 May 2017, lot 166.

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