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A GOLD LACQUER FOUR- A WOOD NETSUKE OF A SHISHI
NETSUKE COMPARTMENT INRO AND TWO WOOD Edo, early 19th century
EXAMPLES Seated, its head turned to the left as it
1Yĸ Meiji scratches its chin with one hind paw, its
FOUR IVORY NETSUKE The first decorated with a song bird on a forelegs outstretched and its curly tail rising to
One by Anraku, Meiji flowering prunus branch below a full moon, meet its mane, its body inlaid with shell florets
An uncut seal topped by a deer sitting on its in gold and silver hiramake-i and takamaki-e, and its eyes of shell with dark pupils,
haunches, signed Anraku, 3.1cm high, an with filigree decorated ojime, 8.4cm long, 6cm wide
oni seated with hands clasped around raised together with a wooden three-compartment
knee (one inlaid eye lacking), 4.1cm high, inro carved to each side with a curtain raised £500 - 600
a second uncut seal of a puppy and barrel, to reveal Fukurokuju and Hotei, 7.6cm long,
3.3cm high, and a karako rolling a massive and another wooden three-compartment inro 6
snowball, inlaid hair, with incised design of a dragon emerging FOUR EARLY LACQUERED INRO
4.2cm long from clouds over stormy seas, signed, 17th and 18th century
8.5cm long The first formed of stitched cherry bark with
£800 - 1,000 three cases, lacquered with a lake scene and
£500 - 700 two crows flying beside a four line inscription,
2Yĸ signed Kogyokusai, with bone ojime and
FOUR IVORY NETSUKE The first two purchased from Lempertz in guri-lacquer manju of chrysanthemum form,
Meiji June 2001. 7cm high, a red lacquer two-case inro carved
A kneeling Fukurokuju with three boys playing in Kamakura-bori with figures in a landscape,
around him, signed, 3.2cm high, two boys 4Yƭ 7.6cm high, a black lacquer four-case inro
trying to wake a sleeping Hotei, signed, SEVEN NETSUKE lacquered and inlaid in Somada style with
4.8cm long, a seated Daruma stretching Meiji a well beneath a paulownia tree, signed
his arms, signed, 4.3cm high, and a puppy A marine ivory demon standing in ragged Kajikawa saku with red pot seal, the fourth
wearing a ribbon and playing with a ball, clothes, grimacing and chewing on long lacquered and inlaid on the matt black
3.3cm high leaves, signed and with inlaid horn eyes, ground with a shishi running over a low table,
7.5cm high, a wooden seated boy holding the interior of red lacquer,
£500 - 700 an ivory ball in a bag, 3.9cm high, a wooden 7.6cm high
trick netsuke of a ratcatcher with an ivory
rat popping out of the box, (break), 4.6cm £600 - 800
high, a marine ivory example carved as a tiny
man resting against a giant boulder, 2.8cm 7Yƭ
high, an ivory performing monkey in costume FOUR IVORY NETSUKE
and with fan, 3.1cm high, an antler reclining Edo/Meiji
buffalo with inlaid horn eyes, 5.7cm long, and A standing monk with large straw hat on his
an ivory rearing horse standing on its hind back, 7.2cm high, a laughing Hotei standing
legs, with one foot on the other, 6.8cm high, a boy
4.6cm high seated with a large cloth sack, 3.2cm high
and an Okame noh mask, signed,
£500 - 700 3.2cm high
£300 - 500
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