Project Description
Exceptional large boxwood netsuke of a grazing horse
Standing with its hooves together, its head bowed down to the left and its tail passing around the hind legs, the slightly worn wood with a good patina
Unsigned. Circa 1800
6.7 cm high
Provenance:
Julius and Arlette Katchen collection, Paris, purchased in Paris, 1961
Information:
This is a far more dynamic composition than is usual in netsuke of horses
Literature:
Arlette Katchen, ‘Netsuke 7’, vol.2, p. 363, no. K155
Bonhams London, ‘The Julius and Arlette Katchen Collection of Fine Netsuke: Part III’, 6th May 2018, lot 67 (estimate £10,000-15,000)
MR2596