Japanese Works of Art - 1st July 2020
Lot 404
λ TWO JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE MEIJI PERIOD
Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £650
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Description
λ TWO JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE
MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY
One depicting Gyoja Busho taming a large lion dog, signed Tomochika underneath; the other four armour-clad samurai scrambling to stand up, signed Masatsugu, 4.2cm and 6.4cm respectively. (2)
Provenance: an English private collection, Westminster.
Cf. F Meinertzhagen, The Meinertzhagen Card Index on Netsuke in the Archives of the British Museum, Part B, p.890, where a similar netsuke of Busho and a shishi by Tomochika is illustrated and discussed, possibly this very piece.