Japanese Works of Art - 13 Nov 2025
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A JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE BY KAZUTOMO
£1,500 - £2,000
A JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE BY KAZUTOMO
EDO PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY
Depicting a small rat resting its paw on a shogi tile, the hair finely rendered and with its eyes inlaid with small black beads, the tail neatly tucked underneath and signed Kazutomo in an oval cartouche underneath, 4.3cm; together with an 18th century wood netsuke of a recumbent deer, 4.4cm. (2)
Provenance: from the William F C Ohly collection (1883 - 1955), Berkeley Galleries and Abbey Museum, New Barnet, London, UK, and thence by descent.