Project Description
Large Ivory Netsuke of an Ox and Bokudo Attributed to Garaku
The boy wears nothing but a jacket, his tiny genitals showing beneath, and pulls on the halter of the immovable ox which licks its muzzle. The animal’s eyes have inlaid pupils in dark material
Signed: Tomotada. Kyoto, circa 1780
6.3 cm across
Information:
This is the mirror image of a marginally smaller (6.1 cm) signed Garaku from the Willi Bosshard collection, illustrated in S.L. Moss, ‘Such Stuff As Dreams are Made on’, 208, no. 19
MR3556
