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A kurogaki (black persimmon) wood and boxwood netsuke of a frog on driftwood By Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810) and Seiyodo Gansui (1809-1848), Iwami Province, late 18th/early 19th century image 1
A kurogaki (black persimmon) wood and boxwood netsuke of a frog on driftwood By Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810) and Seiyodo Gansui (1809-1848), Iwami Province, late 18th/early 19th century image 2
A kurogaki (black persimmon) wood and boxwood netsuke of a frog on driftwood By Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810) and Seiyodo Gansui (1809-1848), Iwami Province, late 18th/early 19th century image 3
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A kurogaki (black persimmon) wood and boxwood netsuke of a frog on driftwood
By Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810) and Seiyodo Gansui (1809-1848), Iwami Province, late 18th/early 19th century

The Robert S. Huthart Collection of Iwami Netsuke: Part I
15 May 2019, 14:00 BST
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A kurogaki (black persimmon) wood and boxwood netsuke of a frog on driftwood

By Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810) and Seiyodo Gansui (1809-1848), Iwami Province, late 18th/early 19th century
The small boxwood frog squatting diagonally on the striated black persimmon section of rotting weathered wood, signed Tomiharu chokoku no kaeru o mochiite, Gansui futatabi kore o kizamu (recarved by Gansui using a frog carved by Tomiharu), with a wood tomobako storage box inscribed outside the lid Gansui futatabi kore o kizamu, Tomiharu chokoku no kaeru o mochiite zaimei (With signature of 'recarved by Gansui using a frog carved by Tomiharu'), the inside of the lid inscribed mizunoe-inu doshi hatsuaki Gado kan (examined by Gado in the early autumn of the mizunoe-inu year [1922]), with a seal Gado. 4.8cm (1 7/8in).

Footnotes

黄楊・黒柿彫根付　流木に乗る蛙　銘 「須富春彫刻之蛙巌水再刻之 」　18世紀後期/19世紀前期

Provenance:
Edward Wrangham Collection.

Published:
Lazarnick, NIA, pp.394-5.
Rokusho 20, p.39, no.47.
Burditt, ICGG, p.35, fig.1.
Earle, Huthart, p.162, no.141.

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