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AN AMBER NETSUKE OF A CHRYSANTHEMUM BLOOM
By Kaigyokusai Masatsugu (1813-1892), Osaka, 19th century
Signed Kaigyoku.
4.5cm (1¾in) wide.

£10,000 - 15,000
JPY1,500,000 - 2,200,000
US$14,000 - 21,000

琥珀彫根付 菊花 銘「懐玉」 19世紀

Provenance:
Albert Brockhaus collection.
Charles A. Greenfield collection.
P. S. Bradford collection.
Joseph Kurstin collection.

Published:
Albert Brockhaus, Netsuke, Leipzig, F. A Brockhaus, 1905/9, p.220.
Louise Ade Boger, The Traditional Arts of Japan, London,
W. H. Allen & Co., 1964, p.270.
Harold P. Stern, The Magnificent Three: Lacquer, Netsuke and Tsuba:
Selections from the Collections of Charles A. Greenfield Collection,
New York, Japan Society Inc., 1972, no.128, illustrated p.112.
Harold P. Stern, Birds, Beasts, Blossoms and Bugs,
Harold N. Abrams, New York, 1976, no.116.
Okada and Neill, Real and Imaginary Beings, The Netsuke Collection
of Joseph and Edith Kurstin, New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery,
1980, p.107, no.113.
NKSJ, vol.5, no.3, 1985, p.32.
NKSJ, vol.15, no.3, Fall 1995, p.33 (Sydney L. Moss advert).
Meinertzhagen, MCI, p.298.
Katchen, N7, vol.1, p.181, no.K672.

The single bloom with tightly formed overlapping petals, curled in to
form a compact composition in honey-coloured amber.

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. THE JULIUS AND ARLETTE KATCHEN COLLECTION: PART III | 79