A wood pipe engraved with a sage astride a mule
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A brown lacquer kiseruzutsu
By Bokuboku, Meiji Period
Of muso-zutsu form, bearing a light tan ground and delicately engraved in katakiri and kebori with the Chinese poet Tu fu (Toba) riding on his mule in a mountainous landscape, signed Bokuboku to.
21.5cm (8½in).
Sold for £5,625 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • 木製漆塗きせる筒　東坡乗驢　銘「墨々刀」　明治時代

    Provenance: purchased from Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London, 2001.
    Wrangham collection, no.2186.

    Published: The International Netsuke Society Journal, vol.22, no.4, p.20, pl.20a-b.

Category: Asian Art / Japanese Art

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