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AN EBONY NETSUKE OF A FROG AN EBONY NETSUKE OF A FROG AN UMIMATSU (SEA-PINE) NETSUKE
ON DRIFTWOOD ON DRIFTWOOD OF A RAT ON A FLOWERING TREE STUMP
Attributed to Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), Attributed to Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), By Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810),
Iwami Province, late 18th/early 19th century Iwami Province, dated 1790 Iwami Province, dated 1794
The frog crouching on the worn piece of The small frog squatting on a piece of A small rat peering out of a hole near the base
driftwood, its legs splayed, its underside weathered wood, its legs splayed, its eyes of the stump, two large flowers blooming to its
rendered with ukibori pimples, its eyes inlaid inlaid in pale and dark horn; signed with left, the mainly dark material with some slight
in horn; unsigned. partially legible ukibori characters Iwami-shu pale patches; signed Iwami-no-kuni Enokawa
4.2cm (1¾in). (Iwami-no-kuni) Enokawa . . . saku Kansei Seiyodo Shi Tomiharu kyonen rokujunisai shite
kanoe-inu . . . gatsu (made by . . . the Eno kore o chokoku toki ni Kansei kinoe-tora natsu
£4,000 - 5,000 River in Iwami Province in the . . . month of nari (carved at the age of sixty-two by the Eno
JPY520,000 - 650,000 the kanoe-inu year of Kansei [1790]). River in Iwami Province by Seiyodo Tomiharu
US$4,800 - 6,100 5.8cm (2¼in). in the kinoe-tora year of Kansei [1794]).
5.3cm (2 1/8in) high.
黒檀彫根付 流木に蛙 無銘 £4,000 - 4,500
18世紀後期/19世紀前期 JPY520,000 - 580,000 £3,000 - 3,500
US$4,800 - 5,500 JPY390,000 - 450,000
Published: US$3,600 - 4,200
Earle, Huthart, p.67, no.48. 黒檀彫根付 流木に蛙 銘「石見州可愛河
囗囗寛政庚戌囗月」 1790年 海松彫根付 丸太に鼠 銘 「石見国可愛河
青陽堂清富春享年六十二歳而彫刻之于時寛
Published: 政甲寅夏也」 1794年
Lazarnick, NIA, p.1123.
Earle, Huthart, p.69, no.50. Published:
Earle, Huthart, p.79, no.61.

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