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A WOOD NETSUKE OF A TORTOISE A TORTOISESHELL NETSUKE A WOOD NETSUKE
By Naokazu (Shoichi), 19th century OF A TORTOISE OF AN OCTOPUS
Signed Nanajuni o (at the age of 72) Naokazu By Kiraku, Edo, 19th century 19th century
(Shoichi) saku. Signed on a mother-of-pearl tablet Kiraku. Unsigned.
4.5cm (1¾in) wide. 3.8cm (1½in) wide. 5.1cm (2in) high.

£600 - 800 £800 - 1,000 £1,000 - 1,500
JPY87,000 - 120,000 JPY120,000 - 150,000 JPY150,000 - 220,000
US$830 - 1,100 US$1,100 - 1,400 US$1,400 - 2,100

木彫根付 亀 銘「七十二翁 尚一作」 鼈甲彫根付 亀 銘「亀楽」 19世紀 木彫根付 蛸 無銘 19世紀
19世紀
Provenance: Provenance:
Provenance: Sold at Glendining & Co. Ltd., London, 1937. Jack Mang collection, purchased at Quinn’s
Hartman Gallery, New York, 1967. S. Marchant & Son, 1967. Auction Gallery, Virginia, U.S.A, December
2012, lot 234.
Published: Published:
Katchen, N7, vol.2, p.235, no.K463. Meinertzhagen, MCI, p.342 (not illustrated). Standing on two tentacles in a human
Katchen, N7, vol.1, p.239, no.K459. attitude, the other tentacles hanging around
Fashioned in two sections, the carapace of its body, the wood with a good patina.
mid-colour wood while the underside is of Carved from a very dark section of
dark kurogaki, a central section of the shell tortoiseshell, the head and legs almost
removable and forms the himotoshi. completely enveloped within the shell.

The maker appears to be unrecorded.

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