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AN EBONY NETSUKE OF A STICK AN EBONY NETSUKE OF A TORTOISE A BOAR-TUSK NETSUKE OF A FROG
OF CHARCOAL By Joei, probably Iwami Province, By Joei, 19th century
By Wasui, Nagasaki, dated 1803 early 19th century The tusk of shallow curvature, a tiny frog
Carved in a realistic manner, a hole on one end Carved in a realistic manner, its head just squatting towards the tip; signed Joei saku
with an inserted piece bearing inscriptions, emerging from within its shell, its legs drawn in (made by Joei).
forming the himotoshi; signed and dated Kyowa for compactness, the eyes inlaid in pale 9.2cm (3 5/8in).
sannen i jugatsu toka gohyakurokujurokuban and dark horn; signed Joei.
Kiyo Wasui saku (made by Wasui of Kiyo on the 5.4cm (2 1/8in). £700 - 800
tenth day of the tenth month of the third, boar, JPY90,000 - 100,000
year of Kyowa [1803], his 566th piece) and
inscribed with a winter haiku. £1,500 - 1,800 US$850 - 970
4.9cm (1 7/8in). JPY190,000 - 230,000
US$1,800 - 2,200 猪牙彫根付 蛙 銘 「如英作」 19世紀
£600 - 800
JPY78,000 - 100,000 黒檀彫根付 亀 銘 「如英」 19世紀前期 Provenance:
US$730 - 970 George Lazarnick Collection.
Published:
黒檀彫根付 炭 銘 「享和三年亥十月十日 Lazarnick, NIA, p.534. Published:
五百六十六番崎陽和翠作」 1803年 Burditt, ICLS, p.40, fig.7. Lazarnick, NIA, pp.71, 534.
Earle, Huthart, p.331, no.305. Earle, Huthart, p.331, no.304.
Published:
Lazarnick, NIA, pp.1210-11.
Rokusho 20, p.73, no.107.
Earle, Huthart, p.330, no.303.

The poem reads in part: Yaizumi mo /
sude ni . . . / sumisa kana
(Even this stick of / charcoal is already
burnt . . . / that is how cold it is).

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