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AN EBONY SEAL NETSUKE OF A SHISHI A WOOD NETSUKE OF A NUE
19th century 19th century
Inscribed Tenko. Unsigned.
5.7cm (2¼in) wide. 4.2cm (1 5/8in) wide.

£2,000 - 3,000 £1,200 - 1,500
JPY290,000 - 440,000 JPY170,000 - 220,000
US$2,800 - 4,100 US$1,700 - 2,100

黒檀彫根付 印上獅子 銘「天工」 19世紀 木彫根付 鵺 無銘 19世紀

Provenance: Provenance:
W. W. Winkworth collection, purchased 1963. Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London, 1963.

Published: Published:
Katchen, N7, vol.2, p.235, no.K443. Katchen, N7, vol.2, p.382, no.K417.

Standing on a rectangular seal base, its head lowered and turned to Seated, its monkey-like head turned to the left, its body of a lion and its
the left with a menacing expression, the eyes and teeth inlaid and the tail terminating with the head of a snake, curling forward over the back.
base carved beneath with formal seal characters.

Tenko may be the name of a maker or more likely an inscription, which
translates as ‘Heaven-gifted craftsman’ (see Lazarnick’s notation in
Meinertzhagen, MCI, p.860).

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
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