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