A LARGE JAPANESE BOXWOOD NETSUKE OF TWO TOADS

A LARGE JAPANESE BOXWOOD NETSUKE OF TWO TOADS

MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY

One smaller amphibian clambering on the back of the other, the animals realistically carved with large bumps on their skin and their eyes inlaid in horn, the belly of the larger toad signed Masanao with kao for Masanao of Yamada (Ise Province), 5cm.

Provenance: from the collection of a lady of title, and thence by descent. See Japanese Works of Art, 1st July 2020, for the first part of this private collection of netsuke sold in these rooms.