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A BOAR-TUSK NETSUKE WITH A CENTIPEDE A BOAR-TUSK NETSUKE WITH A SPIDER
Iwami Province, late 18th/early 19th century By Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), Iwami Province, dated 1787
The tusk carved in low relief, with a centipede crawling towards the Carved in high relief with a crawling spider, its legs undercut, with
narrow end, its body wrapping around all three facets of the tusk; details added in sumi (black ink); signed Nihon San’indo Sekiyo
unsigned. 12.2cm (4¾in). Enokawa Seiyodo Shi Tomiharu kyonen gojuyugosai shite kore o
chokoku toki ni Tenmei, hinoto hitsuji mutsuki juyuyokka nari (carved
£3,000 - 3,500 by Seiyodo Shi[mizu] Tomiharu by the Eno River in Iwami Province, in
JPY390,000 - 450,000 the San’indo region of Japan at the age of fifty-five on the 14th day of
US$3,600 - 4,200 the first month of the hinoto-hitsuji year of Tenmei [1787]) with seals
Kotobuki, Tomiharu and Seiyo(?).
猪牙彫根付 蜈蚣 無銘 18世紀後期/19世紀前期 8.9cm (3½in).
£4,000 - 5,000
Provenance: JPY520,000 - 650,000
Anne Hull Grundy Collection. US$4,800 - 6,100

Published: 猪牙彫根付 蜘蛛 銘 「日本山陰道石陽可愛河青陽堂清富春享年
五十有五歳而彫刻之于時天明丁未睦月十有四日也」 1787年
Earle, Huthart, p.25, no.5.
Provenance:
W. W. Winkworth Collection.
M. T. Hindson Collection.
Published:
Davey, MTH, p.247, no.763.
Lazarnick, NIA, p.1140.
Burditt, ICWT, p.33, figs.2-3.
Rokusho 20, p.4, no.1.
Earle, Huthart, p.26, no.6.

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