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A STAG ANTLER NETSUKE OF A DUTCHMAN AN OBI HASAMI STAG-ANTLER NETSUKE
Edo period (18th century) By Chikusai, Edo period (19th century)

Standing with a rooster held tightly in his arms, the bearded foreigner Carved in the form of an elongated nasubi (eggplant), the calyx with
wearing a wide-brimmed hat and standing in an exotic costume stylized lobed sepals, the himotoshi pierced in the hook section of the
combining a short tunic and trouser with a skirt of four Chinese-style netsuke in a manner suggesting the eyes of a comically faced kappa;
panels, the details heightened with stain signed in seal form within a reserve Chikusai
4in (10cm) high 4 3/8in (11.1cm) high
$1,500 - 2,000 $2,500 - 3,500

Published Meinertzhagen records this artist as the maker of a bamboo brush
Virginia Atchley and Neil Davey, The Virginia Atchley Collection of jar and notes that “He is mentioned in Murray’s Handbook to Japan,
Japanese Miniature Arts, Chicago, 2006, p. 155, no. N212. 1884, among the bamboo workers in Tokyo known as ‘take-zaiku’-
Bernard Hurtig, Masterpieces of Netsuke Art: One Thousand Favorites Kiyu Chikusai of Minami Motomachi, Asakusa” (p. 26).
of Leading Collectors, New York, 1973, no. 21.
Published
OTHER PROPERTIES Scholten Japanese Art, Expressions of Style: Netsuke as Art, New
York, 2001, pl. 192
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Edo period (19th century) THREE OBI-HASAMI STAG-ANTLER NETSUKE
The first a sashi netsuke designed as the trunk of a pine tree and Edo period (19th century)
Chinese-style rocks, inscribed with a Chinese couplet; the second Each decorated on the exterior with carved design imitating woven
an obi-hasami netsuke designed as a stylized shishi with eyes bamboo in different configurations
inlaid in brass; the third a Negoro-style sashi netsuke designed as a 4 1/4in (10.7cm) high (the largest)
desiccated salmon $1,000 - 1,500
6 3/8in (16.2cm) high (the largest)
$1,200 - 1,800

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