Project Description

Netsuke of a Monkey 

Carrying its trainer’s bamboo cane on its shoulders. The eyes inlaid with dark buffalo horn pupils

Unsigned. Circa 1800

Height: 4.2 cm

Information: 

This is by the same hand as another monkey, illustrated in Hurtigs ‘Masterpieces of Netsuke Art’, p. 88,no. 299

MR3131

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