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A BOAR-TUSK NETSUKE WITH A SPIDER A BOAR-TUSK NETSUKE WITH A SNAKE
By Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), Iwami Province, dated 1793 Iwami Province, early 19th century
The tusk carved in low relief with a small spider crawling near the The tip of the tusk carved in relief, a snake winding through holes in a
tip, the eyes inlaid in dark horn; signed in partially legible characters rocky outcrop; unsigned.
Iwami-no-kuni Enokawa Seiyodo Tomiharu kyonen rokujuissai shite 9.8cm (3 7/8in).
kore o chokoku toki ni Kansei gonen nigatsu hatsu yokka nari (carved
at the age of sixty-one by the Eno River in Iwami Province by Seiyodo £1,500 - 2,000
Tomiharu during the first four days of the second month of the fifth JPY190,000 - 260,000
year of Kansei [1793]) with seals Kotobuki and Tomiharu and a pot US$1,800 - 2,400
seal. 10cm (3 15/16in).
猪牙彫根付 蛇 無銘 19世紀前期
£3,000 - 3,500
JPY390,000 - 450,000 Provenance:
US$3,600 - 4,200 Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection.
Sold at Christie’s, London, Part I, 27 October 1987, lot 312.
猪牙彫根付 蜘蛛 銘 「石見州可愛河青陽堂富春享年六十一歳而
彫刻之于時寛政五年二月初四日也 」 1793年 Published:
Rasmussen, DIS, fig.8.
Provenance: Bushell, NFU, p.150, no.388.
Anne Hull Grundy Collection. Earle, Huthart, p.36, no.16.

Published:
Earle, Huthart, p.32, no.12.

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