Project Description
Boxwood and Corozo Nut Netsuke of a Hatching Turtle by Susan Wraight (b.1955)
The wood turtle struggling out of its nut shell. The skin of the neck is rendered with ukibori pimples and the eyes are large inlays of greenish horn
Signed with monogram SW on a gold tablet
4 cm
Provenance:
Purchased directly from the artist
Illustrated:
Another from the Takamado collection is illustrated in Kinsey’s 2001 exhibition at Chiba, ‘Contemporary Netsuke’, no. 361
MR4743
