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Property from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman
Lot 81¤

10 WOOD FIGURAL NETSUKE
Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th century

1 – 9 July 2025, 12:00 EDT
Online, New York

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10 WOOD FIGURAL NETSUKE

Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th century
Comprising an ebony wood netsuke of a boy standing beside a table, a cat resting on the tabletop; a wood figure of a seated Gama Sennin pulling on his beard with his toad companion in his lap; a wood model of Kiyohime as she transforms into a demon entwined around the temple bell; a wood model of Ono no Komachi as an elderly woman seated on a wood stump, a poem inscribed on the underside; a wood figure of a dancer from the Noh drama Hagoromo (Feather Cloak); a wood model of an oni (demon) contorting his body as he tries to hide in a wood box and escape being pelted with beans during the Setsubun festival; a dark wood model of a Sanbaso dancer in mid stride, illegibly signed; a wood figure of an oni grinding body parts with a mortar in one of the realms of hell; a model of a man leading a horse carrying a woman and two children, signed Norishige; and a tall wood model of a Chinese archer on horseback, inscribed Masatsugu
3 1/2in (8.8cm) high, the largest (10).

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Provenance
Toledo Museum of Art, by repute, the first only

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