Japanese Works of Art - 14th November 2018
Lot 865
A JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE EDO 1603-1868 Depicting a tall South Sea Islander
Estimate £1,500 - £2,000
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Description
A JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE
EDO 1603-1868
Depicting a tall South Sea Islander, the man clutching a mother of pearl fish against him and with a cheery expression on his face, his eyes inlaid in bone and horn, unsigned but attributed to Tomochika, 8cm.
Provenance: from the John and Helen Mang Collection.
See Bonhams London, 8th November 2016, lot 36, for a closely related ebony and mother of pearl netsuke of an islander from the Julius and Arlette Katchen Collection signed Tomochika.