Japanese Works of Art - 15th November 2022
Lot 134
AN UNUSUAL JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE OF A SNAIL
Estimate £500 - £1,000 | Hammer £6000
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Description
AN UNUSUAL JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE OF A SNAIL
MEIJI ERA, 19TH CENTURY
Realistically carved, its shell with a radiating pattern of lines with dark staining, the animal emerging from its shell and with its fleshy tail undulating underneath, signed Masanao (for Masanao of Yamada, Ise Province), 3.8cm.
Provenance: a private Irish collection, Dublin. Purchased from Sydney L. Moss Ltd, London. This netsuke is illustrated and discussed in the International Netsuke Society Journal, vol. 23, no,4, Winter 2003, pp.26-7.