Project Description
Exceptional Wood Netsuke of a Recumbent Boar by Masatami (Nagoya 1854-1928)
Lying with its trotters folded in and long snout raised. The bristles of the coat are exquisitely incised and the eyes are well executed double inlays of buffalo horn
Signed: Masatami to
Length: 4.8 cm
Provenance:
Glendining & Co. Ltd., London, 1922
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 1962
Julius and Arlette Katchen, Paris
Sold at their third sale, Bonhams London, 6th November 2018, lot 102 (£18,125)
Literature:
Meinertzhagen, MCI, p.467
A. Katchen, ‘Netsuke 7’, vol.2, p.15, no. K14.
MR5326
