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λ THREE JAPANESE NETSUKE AND AN OJIME
EDO AND MEIJI PERIOD, 18 AND 19 CENTURY
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Two netsuke in ivory, one carved as a large wolf devouring the leg of a spotted deer, the fur realistically carved and with the eyes inlaid in horn, signed Okatomo
in a rectangular reserve underneath; the other of a tiger, one paw holding a crab before it; the third in wood and depicting another emaciated wolf holding a skull
between its front paws; together with a small ivory ojime in the shape of another wolf and skull, 5.2cm max. (4)
£2,000-4,000
Provenance: from the collection of a lady of title, and thence by descent.
Cf. F Meinertzhagen, The Meinertzhagen Card Index on Netsuke in the Archives of the British Museum, Part B, p.620, where other netsuke of wolves signed Okatomo
are illustrated.
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