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A WOOD NETSUKE OF A BAKU
Early 19th century
Unsigned.
5.1cm (2in) wide.

£20,000 - 25,000
JPY2,900,000 - 3,600,000
US$28,000 - 34,000
木彫根付 獏 無銘 19世紀前期

Provenance:
McTaggart collection.

Published:
Katchen, N7, vol.2, p.381, no.K355.

Walking with its head lowered, turned back to the left and its curly tail
passing forward over the back to join the mane, the slightly worn wood
with a fine patina.

The model is similar to an elephant or baku carved beneath the
eaves of the Toshogu Shrine in Nikko which in turn was copied from
drawings by Kano Tanyu (1602-1674).

Other examples of this model are in the collection of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, the Peabody-Essex Museum, Salem,
Masachusetts, the Musée d’Ennery, Paris and the Victoria and
Albert Museum, London (ivory). Another, from the Harriet Szechenyi
collection, is illustrated in Bandini, SON, p.18, no.30, and was sold in
these rooms, 8 November 2011, lot 48.

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 | 83