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           A LARGE LACQUERED BOAR-TUSK NETSUKE WITH POEMS    A BOAR-TUSK NETSUKE WITH ISHIYAMADERA
           Iwami Province, late 18th/early 19th century      19th century
           Partially lacquered dark brownish-green and inscribed in resist with   The tusk with a landscape design of Ishiyama Temple on a rocky cliff
           Chinese and Japanese poems, the design continuing over all sides;   amongst clouds, the pagoda at the top of the peak with several trees,
           signed Nankoku sanjin(?) and inscribed near the broad end    the main hall below, a full moon in the sky above, inscribed Ishiyama
           in illegible characters.                          shugetsu (autumn moon at Ishiyama); unsigned.
           13cm (5 1/8in).                                   9.3cm (3 5/8in).
           £2,000 - 3,000                                    £1,500 - 2,000
           JPY260,000 - 390,000                              JPY190,000 - 260,000
           US$2,400 - 3,600                                  US$1,800 - 2,400
           猪牙彫根付 漢詩・和歌 銘 「南国山人(花押)」 18世紀後
           期/19世紀前期                                          猪牙彫根付 石山秋月 無銘 19世紀
           Provenance:                                       Published:
           Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection.           Earle, Huthart, p.218, no.190.
           Sold at Christie’s, London, Part II, 18 October 1988, lot 192  ‘Autumn Moon at Ishiyama’ is one of the Omi hakkei (Eight Views
           Published:                                        of Lake Biwa), a set often seen in Japanese art from around 1500,
           Shichida Makoto, SI, p.47, fig.2.                 inspired by the Chinese Song-dynasty ‘Eight Views of the Xiao and
           Rokusho 20, p.78, no.117.                         Xiang Rivers’.
           Burditt, ICLS, p.38, fig.1.
           Earle, Huthart, p.215, no.187.


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