Project Description
Ivory netsuke of an ama and octopus by Meikeisai Homin
A most sensual carving with good expression and subtle use of coloured stain, the octopus’s large eye an inlay of horn beneath
Signed: Homin with tama
Length: 3.9 cm
Provenance:
Madelyn Hickmott, sold in her sale at Sotheby’s New York, 8th February 1989, lot 190
Barry Davies Oriental Art
Teddy Hahn, Darmstadt
Information:
Compare with a wood example in the Sagemonoya catalogue ‘Shunga Netsuke’, no. 75
Exhibited:
Embassy of Japan, London, In a Nutshell, 2013, no. 75 (illustrated p. 46 in the catalogue)
MR2685