9 Nov 2010
10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street
The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art: Part I
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The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art: Part I
Back to auction 18493
Two shibuichi kozuka
Hamano School, 19th century
The first inlaid with a fox admiring its reflection in a stream, signed Tenchosai Tsuneyuki; the second carved and inlaid with a man holding a cockerel, the reverse finely engraved with fighting cocks, signed Motonobu with kao. (2).
The first inlaid with a fox admiring its reflection in a stream, signed Tenchosai Tsuneyuki; the second carved and inlaid with a man holding a cockerel, the reverse finely engraved with fighting cocks, signed Motonobu with kao. (2).
Sold for
£840
inc. premium
Footnotes
- 小柄 2点（狐、鶏を持つ男） 19世紀
Provenance: the second from the Clement Milward collection, purchased at Sotheby's London, 1961.
A very similar example was exhibited in the Red Cross Exhibition, 1915, no.978, Catalogue ill. pl.CXLIII.
Category: Asian Art / Japanese Art
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