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A wood netsuke of Gama sennin By Naito Toyomasa (1773-1856), Tanba, early 19th century
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Seated, looking up and crying out, his body twisted to the right as he supports a huge toad over his head, the slightly-worn wood bears a fine patina and the eyes are inlaid with pale translucent horn, signed Toyomasa. 5.2cm (2in).
Footnotes
木彫根付 蝦蟇仙人 銘「豊昌」 19世紀前期
Provenance: Anne Hull Grundy collection.
Jacques Carré collection.
Published: Japanese Netsuke from the Carré collection, Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1993, p.44, no.10.
Rosemary Bandini, ibid., p.40, no.58.
For a very similar example from the W. L. Behrens collection, see The Meinertzhagen Card Index,, p.954; also illustrated in Outside the Box, Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London, 2004, no.38.
Compare also a similar model by Toyokazu, illustrated in The Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection of Netsuke, a Legacy at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2003, no.53.
























