Japanese Works of Art - 1st July 2020

Lot 354

FOUR JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE OF FELINES EDO PERIOD AND LATER

Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £900

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Description

FOUR JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE OF FELINES

EDO PERIOD AND LATER, 18TH CENTURY AND LATER

Two depicting tigers, one tall and seated on its haunches, the other recumbent and signed Masamitsu; the other two carved as cats, one on a rectangular base with a small rat in its mouth and the other licking its back paw, 5.8cm max. (4)

Provenance: from the collection of a lady of title, and thence by descent.

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