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A WOOD NETSUKE OF TWO SNAILS A WOOD NETSUKE A WOOD NETSUKE OF A BEETLE
ON A PUMPKIN OF A SNAIL AND FUNGUS Style of Masanao of Yamada, Ise Province,
By Tadamichi, Nagoya, 19th century Style of Tokoku, Tokyo, late 19th/early 20th 19th century
Signed with ukibori characters Tadamichi. century Unsigned.
3.8cm (1½in) wide. Inscribed on a gilt tablet Tokoku. 3.8cm (1½in) wide.
4.5cm (1¾in) wide.
£600 - 800 £1,000 - 1,500
JPY87,000 - 120,000 £1,000 - 1,500 JPY150,000 - 220,000
US$830 - 1,100 JPY150,000 - 220,000 US$1,400 - 2,100
US$1,400 - 2,100
木彫根付 南瓜に蝸牛 銘「忠道」 木彫根付 甲虫 無銘 19世紀
19世紀 木彫根付 茸に蝸牛 銘「東谷」
19世紀後期/20世紀前期 Published:
Provenance: Katchen, N7, vol.2, p.395, no.K588.
Wilensky, 1960. Provenance:
Hartman, New York. Clambering over a large curled leaf, a slender
Published: stalk beneath forming the himotoshi, the wood
Katchen, N7, vol.2, p.53, no.K632. Published: slightly worn and with a good patina.
Katchen, N7, vol.1, p.265, no.K674.
The two snails, of differing size, slithering over A somewhat similar netsuke of a cicada on a
the top of the vegetable, the wood slightly The minute snail inlaid in buffalo horn, leaf, signed Masanao, is illustrated in Harris,
worn and of good tone. slithering over a group of a cluster of reishi HGBM, p.91, no.444. Th work also shows
fungi, naturalistically rendered in variously affinities with that of Harumitsu of Ise, working
stained wood. in the latter part of the 19th century.

A similar example of the subject by Tokoku is
illustrated in BAUR, p.299, no.C899.

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