Project Description
This is one of the top items in the French collection of netsuke which can now be viewed in the turning page catalogue accessible through our home page
Rare Ivory Netsuke of a Dog and Spinning Top by Yamaguchi Okatomo
Slightly smaller than some Okatomo dogs, but for all that executed with loving attention, and blessed with the sweetest of expressions. Much of the original subtle inking has survived, and they eye pupils are of horn
Signed. Kyoto, circa 1790
Height: 3.4 cm
Provenance:
Sale, Sotheby’s New York, 6th October 1982, lot 21
Scholten Japanese Art, New York Spring 2002
Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London 2007
Literature:
Burt Krouner, the fabulous Kyoto SCHOOL, in JINCS, 3/4 (March 1976), p.23, illustrated
Bulletin de l’Association Franco-japonaise, n°75 (Hiver 2002), Scholten advertisement on the back cover
MR3989