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A BUFFALO-HORN NETSUKE OF A CHESTNUT A KUROGAKI (BLACK PERSIMMON) WOOD NETSUKE
By Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), Iwami Province, dated 1790 OF A FROG
The chestnut delicately rendered, previously with an attached snail, By Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), Iwami Province, late 18th century
one side cut and used as a seal, the seal reading Sui raku seki saku; Resting, facing ahead with its head raised and its legs drawn in,
signed in an irregular reserve Iwami-shu (Iwami-no-kuni) Enokawa forming a compact composition; signed in a circular reserve Tomiharu.
Seiyodo Tomiharu gojuhassai shite kore o chokoku toki ni Kansei ni 5.7cm (2¼in).
kanoe-inu shigatsu yoka nari (carved at the age of fifty-eight by the
Eno River in Iwami Province by Seiyodo Tomiharu on the eighth day £6,000 - 8,000
of the fourth month of the second, kanoe-inu, year of Kansei [1790]) JPY780,000 - 1,000,000
with a pot seal. 4cm (1 9/16in). US$7,300 - 9,700
£2,000 - 2,500 黒柿彫根付 蛙 銘 「富春」 18世紀後期
JPY260,000 - 320,000
US$2,400 - 3,000 Provenance:
Anne Hull Grundy Collection.
水牛角彫根付 栗 銘「石見州可愛河青陽堂富春五十八歳而彫刻之
于時寛政二庚戌四月八日也」 1790年 Published:
Hull Grundy, NCIS, figs.22-24.
Published: Rokusho 20, p.8, no.6.
Earle, Huthart, p.75, no.56. Earle, Huthart, p.57, no.38.
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A KUROGAKI (BLACK PERSIMMON WOOD) MANJU NETSUKE A WOOD NETSUKE OF A FROG ON A TARO LEAF
By Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), early 19th century Attributed to Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), Iwami Province,
Carved in low relief with two geese and reeds by a stream, the reverse early 19th century
similarly carved with a flying goose on a stippled ground; signed inside The frog resting diagonally on the folded leaf, its under-body and the
Kiyo Seiyodo Tomiharu chokoku (carved by Seiyodo Tomiharu veins of the leaf carved in ukibori, the eyes inlaid in pale and dark horn;
of Kiyo). inscribed Seiyodo. 7.2cm (2 13/16in).
3.9cm (1½in) diam.
£4,000 - 6,000
£1,000 - 1,500 JPY520,000 - 780,000
JPY130,000 - 190,000 US$4,800 - 7,300
US$1,200 - 1,800
木彫根付 芋の葉に乗る蛙 銘 「青陽堂」 19世紀前期
黒柿彫饅頭根付 葦雁 銘 「崎陽青陽堂富春彫刻」 19世紀前期
Published:
Published: Earle, Huthart, p.58, no.39.
Rokusho 20, p.13, no.15.
Earle, Huthart, p.85, no.66.

The inscription indicates that Tomiharu was living in Kiyo (an alternative
name for Nagasaki), where he is recorded as having spent his final
years.

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