Project Description
Ivory Netsuke of a Dragon Emerging From an Alms Bowl by Okatomo
Accompanied by an explosion of visually expressed energy
Signed. Kyoto. Circa 1800
Height: 5.1 cm
Provenance:
Private collection, France
Information:
Fuld records only two of these, although he mistakes them for 3. One in Ducros’ ‘Netsuke & Sagemono 2’ (no. 11), is paler but has the same two short lines in each scale as in this netsuke. The other example, illustrated on p. 72 of the catalogue of the 1990 ‘London Netsuke Fair and Convention’ has only one such line in each scale
MR2918