Project Description
A Wood Tonkotsu Inlaid with an Octopus, by Hasegawa Ikko
The wood receptacle carved in imitation of a fisherman’s basket, the two parts inlaid with a fisherman struggling with a giant octopus, with clam shells and seaweed scattered around. Other elements are inlaid in silver and buffalo horn
Signed on an inlaid ivory tablet: Ikko. Circa 1820
MR3652