Project Description
A Stained Ivory Netsuke of an Octopus and Fish, by Hasegawa Ikko
About 20 fish piled together as a catch, the details of the scales minutely worked
Signed. Tsu. Circa 1820
Length: 6.1 cm
Provenance:
Walter L. Behrens, F. Meinertzhagen and W.W. Winkworth collections
Mark T. Hindson, sold at his 2nd sale, Sotheby’s London, 1th October 1967, lot 277
Purchased there by John Mang, Alexandria MD
Sold at his sale, Quinns, Church Falls, 7th December 2012, lot 255
Purchased by Max Rutherston for Jacques Carré
Literature:
N.K. Davey, Netsuke [Hindson collection], p. 219, no. 671
Lazarnick, Netsuke and Inro Artists …, p. 511
Meinertzhagen Card Index, p. 220
Located in the European Union
£6,000
Ref. B212