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A SMALL WOOD NETSUKE OF A KAPPA A WOOD AND STAG-ANTLER NETSUKE A BOXWOOD NETSUKE OF A KAPPA
By Gyokumin, Edo, late 18th century OF A KAPPA By Sukeharu, Takayama, Hida Province,
The kappa bearing an agonised expression, By Ryukosai Jugyoku, Edo, 19th century 19th century
the kappa standing on a large basket clam, The kappa of dark stained wood, clambering The kappa standing on a large clam, the
attempting to extricate one foot caught in the onto a large cucumber of green-stained kappa attempting to extricate one foot caught
shell, the eyes of the kappa and clam flesh stag-antler, looking ahead with an intense in the shell, expressively rendered in stained
inlaid with shell; signed Gyokumin with a kao. expression, its eyes double inlaid; signed on a boxwood, the eyes inlaid, the himotoshi
2.7cm (1 1/16in). mother-of-pearl tablet Jugyoku. ringed with bone, one stained green;
4cm (1 9/16in). signed Sukeharu. 3.4cm (1 5/16in).
£1,200 - 1,500
JPY170,000 - 210,000 £2,000 - 3,000 £2,500 - 3,000
US$1,600 - 2,000 JPY280,000 - 420,000 JPY350,000 - 420,000
US$2,600 - 3,900 US$3,300 - 3,900
木彫根付 蜆に河童 銘「玉珉（花押）」
18世紀後期 木・鹿角彫根付 胡瓜に河童 銘「寿玉」 黄楊彫根付 河童 銘「亮春」 19世紀
19世紀
Provenance: Provenance:
Purchased at Piasa, Paris, 1 June 1999, Provenance: Milgrom Collection.
lot 474. Purchased at Sotheby’s, London, 20 Purchased at Lucien Paris,
February 1986, lot 29. Nogent-sur-Marne, 24 September 2015,
For a similar example by Gyokumin, a student lot 424.
of Komin, see G. Lazarnick, NIA, p.426. An A very similar example is illustrated by F.
example by Komin is illustrated by N. Davey, Meinertzhagen, MCI, p.272. Another similar The maker appears to have been a
MTH, p.122, no.357. example by the artist is illustrated by B. contemporary of Matsuda Sukenaga
Hurtig, MNA, p.182, no.756. and other carvers from Takayama in Hida
Province, although hardly any of his output
is recorded, but very similar examples by
Suketada are illustrated by N. Davey, MTH,
p.237, no.736; R. Barker and L. Smith,
NMSJ, p.111, no.209; and G. Lazarnick, NIA,
p.1050.

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