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An ivory netsuke of a tiger By Matsushita Otoman (Otomitsu), Hakata, 19th century image 1
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An ivory netsuke of a tiger
By Matsushita Otoman (Otomitsu), Hakata, 19th century

The Harriet Szechenyi Sale of Japanese Art
8 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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An ivory netsuke of a tiger

By Matsushita Otoman (Otomitsu), Hakata, 19th century
Lying, its head raised to the left as it snarls a warning to a predator, one forepaw raised, ready to strike, and its tail curling forward over the back, the ivory is slightly worn and the eyes are of pale horn with dark pupils, signed Otoman (Otomitsu). 4.2cm (1 5/8in).

Footnotes

象牙彫根付　虎　銘「音満」　19世紀

Provenance: Glen and Georgia Dickinson collection.

Published: Bernard Hurtig, Masterpieces of Netsuke Art, 1973, p.107, no.401.
The Journal of the International Netsuke Collectors' Society, vol.3, no.1, Honolulu, 1975.
Japanese Netsuke, Ojime and Inro from a Private European Collection, Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1998, no.118.

Exhibited: The Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1975.

For almost identical examples, see Neil K. Davey, Netsuke, p.263, no.813; Alain Ducros, Art, Magie et Médecine, 2006, p.316; and Netsuke, Condensed Culture of Edo, published by the Nihon Netsuke Kenkyukai, 2005, no.25. Another, facing in the opposite direction, is illustrated by George Lazarnick, Netsuke and Inro Artists and How To Read Their Signatures, p.857.

The artist, whose name can also be read as Otomitsu, used two different forms of signature. The present example is signed with two large red-tinted characters, Oto-Mitsu, as opposed to that on the netsuke of goats, lot 141, which is signed with three characters, O-to-man.

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