Project Description
Boxwood Netsuke of a Wolf by Yamaguchi Okatomo
At first glance, a standard model, but with the unusual feature of the haunch being vertical, the wolf in the act of gnawing it. The eyes are double inlays of bone with horn pupils
Signed: Tomotada. Circa 1800
Length: 4.6 cm
Provenance:
Anonymous sale, Zacke, 23rd May 1998, lot 103
Since then in a private collection, Vienna
MR4689
