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A WOOD NETSUKE OF A GROUP OF MONKEYS Provenance:
By Tametaka, Nagoya, 18th century Anne Hull Grundy Collection.
Comprising four adults and three young, the monkeys sitting and Jacques H. Carré Collection.
crouching on a rock, one eating a fruit, others snuggling against each Purchased at Kyoto Gallery, Brussels, January 1984.
other, forming a compact composition, the wood stained dark, the
underside carved in low relief with a rock and bed of overlapping Published:
leaves; signed in a leaf-shaped reserve Tametaka. Moss, EIN, p.79, no.50.
3.7cm (1 7/16in).
For a somewhat similar example by the artist, see A. Ducros, NS,
£7,000 - 8,000 1978, colour plate, no.7. Another is illustrated in Barry Davies Oriental
JPY980,000 - 1,100,000 Art, C99, p.30, no.53.
US$9,200 - 11,000
木彫根付 猿 銘「為隆」 18世紀
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