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A GROUP OF TEN LACQUERED WOOD AND STAG-ANTLER 582
NETSUKE A GROUP OF TEN ASSORTED NETSUKE
Edo period (1615-1868) and Showa era (1926-1989), 19th and 20th Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th/20th century
century Comprising a brass ash-cup netsuke, the hinged cover decorated with the
Comprising a lacquered-wood model of an inkstone in the form of a face of Hyottoko; a hardstone netsuke carved as a gourd with gilt-metal
courtier with an umbrella, possibly the poet Ono no Tofu, signed Tokisada mounts and ring himotoshi; a stag-antler netsuke of a node of bamboo
koku (Nakamura Masatoshi), and inscribed Saga no suzuri; a Negoro-style decorated with a butterfly; a stag-antler and wood netsuke carved as a
lacquer bell decorated with the characters Ekirei (Post-station bell) and hand drum; a hardstone netsuke of a ball of lotus leaves, applied with a
signed Shusai; a Negoro-style lacquer model of a oshidori (duck); a Negoro- silver himotoshi; a large silver and wood netsuke of a Shogi game piece; a
style lacquer mask netsuke of demon; a gold-lacquer model of a bucket in stag-antler netsuke carved as a cylindrical case decorated with dragons in
waves, applied with a silver ring himotoshi; a hako-style clouds over rolling waves in low relief, signed Ryumin, the case containing
lacquer netsuke decorated with toys in iro-e takamaki-e on an aogai a miniature paper handscroll; a silvered-metal seal; a copper toy formed
ground, signed Yokei and with a kao; a circular hako-style lacquer netsuke as Daruma, obscurely inscribed on the reverse Tokyo Shokei Ten[]do sei; a
decorated with family crests and ferns in gold hiramaki-e on a brown- brass compass netsuke incised with stars and scrolling vines
lacquer ground, signed Yoyusai; a porcelain model of two handscrolls 2 5/8in (6.6cm) high, the largest
decorated in polychrome enamels and gilt; a stag-antler model of a Tengu’s
head, the eyes inlaid in ebony; a stag-antler model of a kinchaku (purse) $3,000 - 5,000
carved with archaistic Chinese characters
2 5/8in (6.6cm) high, the largest Provenance
The first purchased from Konishi, Los Angeles, 1999
$3,000 - 5,000 The second and third purchased from Ito, Tokyo, 2000, and 1973
The fourth purchased from Butterfield and Butterfield, San Francisco, 1991
Provenance The fifth purchased from Yagi, Kyoto, 1978
The first purchased from Raymond Bushell, Tokyo, 1996 The sixth purchased from Christie’s, New York, 2006
The second purchased from Ito, Tokyo, 1977
The third, fifth, and eighth, purchased from Robert Fleischel, Tokyo, 2013,
1985, and 2011
The fourth purchased from Sotheby’s, London, 1974
The sixth purchased from Trudel Klefisch, Cologne, 1982
The seventh purchased in Japan, 1980s
The ninth purchased form Sharen Chappell, St. Paul, 2013
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