Project Description
Large Wood Mask Netsuke of an Ogre by Deme Uman
With a protruding lupine muzzle, large fangs, a goatee beard, the heavy brows and ears more human looking
Signed. Circa 1820
Height 5cm
Provenance:
Sothebys, London, 9th November 1976, lot 128, and again 9th November 2005, lot 1233
Sagemonoya, Tokyo
Pierre Jacquesson collection, Paris
Literature:
Illustrated in the JINCS, 4/3, p. 10 and INSJ 40/1, p. 36 (the latter in an article by P. Jacquesson)
Exhibited;
Bonhams Paris, Netsuke Sagemono, exhbition to coincide with the International Netsuke Society Convention, October 2019, no. 163 in the catalogue
MR4685
