Asian Art II - 18th November 2015
Lot 309
λ TWO JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE MEIJI 1868-1912 The first carved as a man holding bells
Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £380
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Description
λ TWO JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE
MEIJI 1868-1912
The first carved as a man holding bells, the details picked out in coloured lacquer, signed Yoshi, the other as a drunk man with a gourd over his shoulder, holding a fan before him, signed Masaharu in seal script, 5.4cm. (2)
Provenance: formerly in an English private collection.
Cf. F Meinertzhagen, The Meinertzhagen Card Index on Netsuke in the Archives of the British Museum, Part A, p.410 for a netsuke of a fisherman bearing the same Masaharu seal.