TWO JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE OF DRAGONS

TWO JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE OF DRAGONS

EDO AND MEIJI PERIOD, 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES

One a sashi netsuke carved as a hyriu (bird-like dragon), its beak wide open and with fire wisps engulfing its legs, its tail bifurcated, unsigned; the other depicting a three-clawed dragon coiling around a sacred pearl of wisdom, its eyes inlaid in horn, discreetly signed on the inside of its tail, possibly Miwa, 12.8cm and 4cm respectively. (2)

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.