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Lot 98
A wood tonkotsu (tobacco box) By Jikan Ganbun, 19th century
7 November 2013, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,875 inc. premium
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By Jikan Ganbun, 19th century
Of irregular rustic oval form with tapering sides, inlaid in ebony with a mukade emerging from a hole, five ants of copper, brass and shakudo, two pine cones and needles of wood and bone, signed on an inlaid ebony tablet Jikan Ganbun.
9.2cm (3 5/8in), wide.
Of irregular rustic oval form with tapering sides, inlaid in ebony with a mukade emerging from a hole, five ants of copper, brass and shakudo, two pine cones and needles of wood and bone, signed on an inlaid ebony tablet Jikan Ganbun.
9.2cm (3 5/8in), wide.
Footnotes
Provenance: F. Poncetton collection.
Published: The Meinertzhagen Card Index on Netsuke in the Archives of the British Museum, Alan R. Liss, Inc., New York, 1986, p.66.























