Project Description

Pale Wood Seal Netsuke of a Hakutaku

Very simply carved, the eyes in the side of the body sketchily incised, the base carved with a seal

Unsigned. Circa 1900

Height 3.9cm

While I am sure that this is a latecarving, it is copied from the Sōken Kishō, published in 1781 by Inaba Tsuryu, appearing on a page of foreign inspired carvings, beneath a so called doctor’s model. The page is not illustrated in Lazarnick’s section on the publication in the first volume of his Netsuke and Inro Artists …

£350

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