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Lot 102*
A wood manju By Toyokazu, Tanba, 19th century
8 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £8,125 inc. premium
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By Toyokazu, Tanba, 19th century
Finely carved and pierced with a dragon amid billowing clouds, the wood dark-stained and the one visible eye inlaid with pale translucent horn, signed in a rounded rectangular reserve Toyokazu. 4.8cm (1 7/8in).
Finely carved and pierced with a dragon amid billowing clouds, the wood dark-stained and the one visible eye inlaid with pale translucent horn, signed in a rounded rectangular reserve Toyokazu. 4.8cm (1 7/8in).
Footnotes
木彫柳左根付 龍 銘「豊一」 19世紀
An almost identical example from the Frederick Meinertzhagen collection is illustrated by Frederick Meinertzhagen, The Art of the Netsuke Carver, 1956, no.68; and also in The Meinertzhagen Card Index, p.947.
For a very similar example by Naito Toyomasa, see Marie-Thérèse Coullery and Martin S. Newstead, The Baur Collection, Netsuke, p.127, no.C269, illustrated in colour, p.41.
























