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A WOOD NETSUKE OF REISHI FUNGUS A WOOD NETSUKE OF A MUSHROOM A WOOD NETSUKE
By Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891), WITH INLAID METAL ANTS OF BAMBOO SHOOTS
late 19th century By Jikan Ganbun, Kyoto and Tokyo, By Yoshikazu, late 19th century
The four stalks of fungi with heads of differing late 19th century The two bamboo shoots carved side-by-
size, seven tiny ants delicately applied in The mushroom with a broad cap, the thick side, one curling beneath the other, the larger
black lacquer, one of the stalks forming the stalk partly gnawed, characteristically inlaid one with wormholes, revealing inside a small
himotoshi; signed in black lacquer Zeshin. with three tiny ants of gilt metal and shakudo, figure of Moso, one of the Twenty-four Filial
4.5cm (1¾in) high. the wood well patinated; signed on an inlaid Exemplars, the root nodules inlaid in dark
ebony tablet Gyonen rokujusai Ganbun horn; signed in a stained red wood oval
£2,000 - 2,500 tsukuru (Made by Ganbun at the age of 60). cartouche Yoshikazu.
JPY280,000 - 350,000 3.1cm (1¼in) high. 6cm (2 3/8in).
US$2,600 - 3,300
£1,500 - 2,000 £1,000 - 1,500
木彫根付 霊芝 銘「是真」 19世紀後期 JPY210,000 - 280,000 JPY140,000 - 210,000
US$2,000 - 2,600 US$1,300 - 2,000
Provenance:
Leblanc Collection. 木彫根付 茸に蟻 木彫根付 筍の中の孟宗 銘「美一」
Purchased at Beaussant-Lefèvre, Hotel 銘「行年六十歳眼文造」 19世紀後期 19世紀後期
Drouot, 20 November 2009, lot 243.
Provenance: Provenance:
Purchased at Delvaux, Paris, 12 April 2013, Purchased at Chayette & Cheval,
lot 137. Hotel Drouot, March 1982.

A very similar example by Yoshikazu is
illustrated in F. Meinertzhagen, MCI, p.984
and an almost identical example from the A.
R. Wright Collection was sold at Sotheby’s,
London, 1 November 1933.

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. FINE NETSUKE | 77