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A BOXWOOD NETSUKE OF TWO RATS A KUROGAKI (BLACK PERSIMMON) A KUROGAKI (BLACK PERSIMMON)
ON DAIKOKU’S SACK WOOD NETSUKE OF A RECUMBENT OX WOOD MASK NETSUKE
By Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), By Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), By Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810),
Iwami Province, 1794-5 Iwami Province, late 18th/early 19th century late 18th/early 19th century
An adult and young rat seated, facing each Lying with its legs folded compactly beneath its The mask of a smiling bearded man with
other, on the side of Daikoku’s sack which body, its halter wound tightly around its horns, crisply carved features, the eyes secured
is neatly tied with a cord at the neck; signed the other end connecting to its nose piece, the from the reverse using gyokugan (crystal
with partly illegible ukibori characters Seiyodo wood with some paler patches along the spine, eyes), a bar on the reverse forming the
Tomiharu, rokujusansai chokoku, Daikoku . . . its eyes inlaid in light and dark horn; signed in a himotoshi; signed Sekiyo Hako Tomiharu
(carved at the age of 63 by Seiyodo Tomiharu, polished rectangular reserve Seiyodo Tomiharu. chokoku (carved by Tomiharu at Hako in
Daikoku . . . ). 5.8cm (2¼in). Iwami Province).
5.7cm (2¼in). 5.7cm (2¼in).
£5,000 - 6,000
£2,500 - 3,000 JPY650,000 - 780,000 £1,500 - 2,000
JPY320,000 - 390,000 US$6,100 - 7,300 JPY190,000 - 260,000
US$3,000 - 3,600 US$1,800 - 2,400
黒柿彫根付 臥牛 銘 「青陽堂富春」
黄楊彫根付 大黒の袋に乗る鼠 銘 「青陽堂 18世紀後期/19世紀前期 黒柿彫根付 面 銘 「石陽波江富春彫刻」
富春六十三歳彫刻 大黒囗囗」 1794-5年 18世紀後期/19世紀前期
Published:
Published: Rokusho 20, p.14, no.18. Published:
Burditt, ICWT, p.36, fig.18. Earle, Huthart, p.81, no.63. Lazarnick, NIA, p.1127.
Rokusho 20, p.15, no.19. Rokusho 20, p.16, no.22.
Earle, Huthart, p.77, no.58. A very similar example, sold in Part I of this Earle, Huthart, p.86, no.68.
collection on 15 May 2019 (lot 33, no.62 in the
original catalogue by J. Earle), was erroneously
catalogued as no.63 and as having been
published as no.18 in Rokusho 20.

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