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A WOOD NETSUKE OF MASKS A PAULOWNIA-WOOD AND GOLD TWO HIRADO PORCELAIN MANJU
Edo period (mid-19th century) MANJU NETSUKE NETSUKE
Carved and pierced as a cluster of five masks Edo period/Meiji era (19th century) Edo period/Meiji era (19th century)
comprised of Kijo, Magojiro, Fukai, Uzume Decorated with two flowering peony sprays in The first of rounded square form and
and Kintaro with his axe gold takazogan accompanied by gold lacquer decorated in shades of underglaze blue with
1 5/8in (4.3cm) wide ribbon-tied flowerballs in takamaki-e, all reserved a dragon clutching a jewel and wreathed
$1,200 - 1,500 on a natural kiri-wood ground, the underside in clouds; the second of similar shape and
with an inlaid cartouche signed Bunsai painted with linked flowering sprays of
Published 1 1/2in (3.8cm) diameter chrysanthemum reversed by apocryphal date
Virginia Atchley and Neil Davey, The Virginia $2,000 - 3,000 and signature cartouches
Atchley Collection of Japanese Miniature Arts, 1 5/8 and 1 5/8in (4.1 and 4.2cm) high
Chicago, 2006, p. 146, no. N199. Provenance $1,500 - 2,500
F.P Schneider collection
3130 Provenance
A BOXWOOD NETSUKE OF A SNAIL Published F.P. Schneider collection [first]
Edo period (early 19th century) Virginia Atchley and Neil Davey, The Virginia
The dark wood with a good patina, carved as Atchley Collection of Japanese Miniature Arts, Published
a tanishi (mud snail) crawling on a pea pod, Chicago, 2006, p. 171, no. N238. Virginia Atchley and Neil Davey, The Virginia
the detail finely rendered Bernard Hurtig, Masterpieces of Netsuke Atchley Collection of Japanese Miniature Arts,
2 5/8in (6.8cm) wide Art: One Thousand Favorites of Leading Chicago, 2006, p. 39, no. N23 and p. 186,
$2,000 - 3,000 Collectors, New York, 1973, no. 43. no. N266.
Published 3133 INCS, Journal of the International Netsuke
Virginia Atchley and Neil Davey, The Virginia A SHIBUICHI MANJU NETSUKE IN THE Collectors’ Society, vol. 3, no. 2, p. 19, fig.
Atchley Collection of Japanese Miniature Arts, FORM OF A HIDOGU (TINDER LIGHTER) 17. [first]
Chicago, 2006, p. 68, no. N72. Edo period (19th century)
The exterior with gold and shakudo hirazogan 3136
3131 decoration of butterflies and flowering grasses FOUR BRONZE AND MIXED
A GURIBORI LACQUER NETSUKE scattered with four small insects in gold and METAL NETSUKE
Edo period (late 18th/early 19th century) silver takazogan, a small push-button release Edo period (18th/19th century)
Of double-gourd form girded by a silvered on the hinged case opens to an iron flintlock The first three 18th century, comprising a
metal band with a hinged loop himotoshi and mechanism and tinder box, the underside bronze figure of a bearded hermit and two
threaded stopper with inlaid signature Shigetsu haizara (ashtray) netsuke: a brass hexagonal
2 1/4in (5.6cm) high 2in (5cm) diameter bowl cast with a dragon suspended from
$1,000 - 1,500 $1,500 - 2,500 a loop himotoshi and a bronze bell of
Dodoji with the himotoshi formed by the
Published Published dragon manifestation of Kiyohime; the last
Virginia Atchley and Neil Davey, The Virginia Virginia Atchley and Neil Davey, The Virginia a 19th-century ashtray netsuke with a silver
Atchley Collection of Japanese Miniature Arts, Atchley Collection of Japanese Miniature Arts, interior bowl, the interior woven in copper wire
Chicago, 2006, p. 173, no. N242. Chicago, 2006, p. 163, no. N226. with a manji pattern
2 1/2in (6.2cm) height of first
3134 $1,000 - 1,500
A WOOD AND SHAKUDO KAGAMIBUTA
NETSUKE Published
Edo period (19th century) Virginia Atchley and Neil Davey, The Virginia
The wooden bowl with an inset shakudo metal Atchley Collection of Japanese Miniature Arts,
plate and inlaid in silver with a design of five Chicago, 2006, pp. 37, 113, 139 and 187,
seals of various artists, one with a shishi finial nos. N20, N147, N186 and N268.
1 3/4in (4.4cm) diameter
$1,500 - 2,500
Published
Virginia Atchley and Neil Davey, The Virginia
Atchley Collection of Japanese Miniature Arts,
Chicago, 2006, p. 164, no. N227.
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