**SOLD** Dark Stained Wood Netsuke of a Dragon by Tametaka

Dark Stained Wood Netsuke of a Dragon by Tametaka

Its head resting comfortably on the double coils of its body, whiskers, legs and flames hugging them too, a clever way of protecting these usually fragile elements. The bearded beast has a smile characteristic of the artist which passed on to his Nagoya followers. One leg forms a bar for the attachment of a cord

Signed. Nagoya. Circa 1800

Width 3.8 cm

Provenance:

Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 16th March 1990, lot 29, where purchased by the previous French owner

His anonymous sale, Bonhams, London, 4th November 2020, lot 61

Since in a private collection

Dragons on their own by Tametaka are scarce. In general he carved them in association with other objects or beings

MR5198