Japanese Works of Art - 1st July 2020

Lot 376

FIVE JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE OF SEAFARERS MEIJI PERIOD

Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £1600

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Description

FIVE JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE OF SEAFARERS

MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY

Two carved as a fisherman whose loincloth is trapped in a giant bivalve; two others depicting Benkei blowing in a conch shell, the last an unusual depiction of a mermaid with her children, one clambering over her tail and the other suckling at her teat, some with signatures including Kizan / Yoshiyama, Masakazu, and Tomokazu, 5.3cm max. (5)

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