Exceptional Boxwood Netsuke of a Recumbent Horse by Ikkan

The horse recumbent with its head turned back.  The eyes are double inlays of buffalo horn

Signed. Circa 1850-70

Length: 4 cm

PROVENANCE:

Rolf Schmoll, Hamburg

LITERATURE:

Netsuke Kenkyukai Study Journal, 11/4, p. 11, illustrated

Netsuke Kenkyukai Study Journal, 12/3, p. 14, mentioned