This auction has ended. View lot details
You may also be interested in
Property from the Collection of David and Sandy Swedlow
Lot 6569
Two wood and one buffalo horn netsuke 19th century
23 August 2010, 10:00 PDT
San FranciscoSold for US$732 inc. premium
Looking for a similar item?
Our specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.
Find your local specialistTwo wood and one buffalo horn netsuke
19th century
The first a dark wood study of a seated mountain lion, his curling tail forming the himotoshi, eyes of inlaid horn and teeth in bone, inscribed in an oval reserve Tomokazu; the next a dark wood netsuke carved as a fox trapping a hunter beneath his oversized scrotum, signed Issai; the third carved from buffalo horn as a swimming catfish, eyes inlaid with bone and translucent horn.
3 1/4in (8.3cm) length of last
The first a dark wood study of a seated mountain lion, his curling tail forming the himotoshi, eyes of inlaid horn and teeth in bone, inscribed in an oval reserve Tomokazu; the next a dark wood netsuke carved as a fox trapping a hunter beneath his oversized scrotum, signed Issai; the third carved from buffalo horn as a swimming catfish, eyes inlaid with bone and translucent horn.
3 1/4in (8.3cm) length of last
Footnotes
Literature:
The second, reputed to be ex-W.L. Behrens collection, no. 4785, recorded in Frederick Meinertzhagen and George Lazarnick (ed.), MCI, the Meinertzhagen Card Index on Netsuke in the Archives of the British Museum (New York: A.R. Liss, 1986), 235.














