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Lot 86*
A small boxwood netsuke of a baby boy After Tanaka Minko, Tsu, 19th century
8 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £2,250 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA small boxwood netsuke of a baby boy
After Tanaka Minko, Tsu, 19th century
Seated, his feet together as he holds a demon mask before his face, which bears inlaid dark wood eyebrows, his short coat is tied at the neck and carved with clouds in ukibori, the wood is slightly worn and of a good colour, signed with red-tinted characters Minko with kao. 3.5cm (1 3/8in).
Seated, his feet together as he holds a demon mask before his face, which bears inlaid dark wood eyebrows, his short coat is tied at the neck and carved with clouds in ukibori, the wood is slightly worn and of a good colour, signed with red-tinted characters Minko with kao. 3.5cm (1 3/8in).
Footnotes
木彫根付 男児に鬼面 銘「岷江(花押)」 19世紀
Published: Illustrated with a drawing in The Meinertzhagen Card Index, p.512.
























