Project Description

Ivory Netsuke of the Warrior Kusonoki Masashige (1294- 1336)

Standing in full armour holding a war fan, a box at his feet and his son Masatsura kneeling alongside holding his tachi

Signed: Shounsai

Height: 5.1 cm

Provenance:

W.L. Behrens collection (Joly catalogue, no. 1178, illustrated on plate XIX)

W.W.Winkworth

Mark T. Hindson, London, sold Sotheby’s London, 23rd June 1969, Hindson Part VII, lot 1171, bought by 

Jacques Carré

MR3100