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Lot 191*
A wood netsuke of a parrot By Taguchi, 19th century
8 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £8,125 inc. premium
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By Taguchi, 19th century
Perched with lowered head on a pine branch which extends over the back, the wood slightly-worn and the eyes inlaid with dark horn, signed in an irregular reserve Taguchi. 4.5cm (1¾in).
Perched with lowered head on a pine branch which extends over the back, the wood slightly-worn and the eyes inlaid with dark horn, signed in an irregular reserve Taguchi. 4.5cm (1¾in).
Footnotes
木彫根付 鸚鵡 銘「田口」 19世紀
Published: Rosemary Bandini, ibid., p.112, no.166.
A very similar example, signed Soshin, is illustrated in The Meinertzhagen Card Index, p.817; and by George Lazarnick, Netsuke and Inro Artists and How To Read Their Signatures, p.1037. Another, signed Mori Soshin, is illustrated in The International Netsuke Society Journal, vol.30, no.2, Summer 2010, p.17, fig.5.
The name Taguchi has been recorded as associated with Garaku II of Osaka, although the present example shows no affinities with the work of that maker.
























