Japanese Works of Art - 1st July 2020

Lot 373

NINE JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE OF FIGURES MEIJI PERIOD

Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £2400

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Description

NINE JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE OF FIGURES

MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY

Variously carved as two drunk shojo sleeping, two men with sake bottles and another drinking, three blind men and the last trying to lift a stone which is transforming into a tanuki racoon dog, some with signatures including Gyokuhei and Shiko, 5.3cm max. (9)

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