Japanese Works of Art - 27th July 2021
Lot 447
A LARGE JAPANESE BOXWOOD NETSUKE OF TWO TOADS
Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £950
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Description
A LARGE JAPANESE BOXWOOD NETSUKE OF TWO TOADS
MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY
One smaller amphibian clambering on the back of the other, the animals realistically carved with large bumps on their skin and their eyes inlaid in horn, the belly of the larger toad signed Masanao with kao for Masanao of Yamada (Ise Province), 5cm.
Provenance: from the collection of a lady of title, and thence by descent. See Japanese Works of Art, 1st July 2020, for the first part of this private collection of netsuke sold in these rooms.