Japanese Works of Art - 1st July 2020
Lot 390
λ FIVE JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE OF DOGS MEIJI PERIOD
Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £700
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Description
λ FIVE JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE OF DOGS
MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY
The first depicting Hanasaka Jiisan with his dog raking through a pile of gold coins, signed Shokyusai; the four others carved as chubby-looking puppies, one resting on a rooftile, another on an awabi shell, the third with a fish and the last a bitch with her young, some with signatures including Ranichi, Hakuryu, and Shokyusai, 5.2cm max. (5)
Provenance: from the collection of a lady of title, and thence by descent.
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