A TALL JAPANESE SAISHIKI PAINTED WOOD NETSUKE

A TALL JAPANESE SAISHIKI PAINTED WOOD NETSUKE

EDO PERIOD, 18TH CENTURY

In the style of Yoshimura Shuzan, carved as a bugaku dancer performing the genjoraku, his rich garments decorated in polychrome and with some details in gilt on the hinoki (cypress) wood, unsigned, 8.5cm.

PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS TO BE SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE.

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.