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AN EBONY NETSUKE OF A TORTOISE A KUROGAKI (BLACK PERSIMMON) WOOD NETSUKE
By Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), Iwami Province, dated 1793 OF A MINOGAME AND TERRAPIN
The tortoise facing ahead, its head emerging from within its shell, its legs Style of Seiyodo Tomiharu, Iwami Province, late 18th century
drawn in for compactness, the carapace embellished with worn ukibori The large minogame walking across a large rock, its long tail
pimples, the eyes inlaid in pale and dark horn; signed Iwami Enokawa trailing over the craggy surface, a terrapin climbing up from one side;
Seiyodo Tomiharu-o kyonen rokujuissai shite kore o chokoku toki ni unsigned.
Kansei mizunoto-ushi natsu nari (this was carved by the Eno River in 7.3cm (2 7/8in).
Iwami by old man Seiyodo Tomiharu at the age of sixty-one
in the summer of the mizunoto-ushi year of Kansei [1793]). £2,000 - 3,000
5.3cm (2 1/8in). JPY260,000 - 390,000
US$2,400 - 3,600
£3,000 - 3,500
JPY390,000 - 450,000 黒柿彫根付 巌に乗る蓑亀と鼈 無銘 18世紀後期
US$3,600 - 4,200
Published:
黒檀彫根付 亀 銘 「石見可愛河青陽堂富春翁行年六十一歳而彫刻 Earle, Huthart, p.52, no.31.
之于時寛政癸丑夏也」 1793年

Provenance:
Anne Hull Grundy Collection.

Published:
Earle, Huthart, p.55, no.35.

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