Project Description

Wood Netsuke of a Rolling Stallion by Masanao of Kyoto

Forming a perfectly compact composition, all the legs drawn int.  Characteristic of the artist, the larger himotoshi is oval, well hollowed with. The eyes are inlaid in dark horn

Signed: Masanao.  Kyoto, circa 1780

Length: 4.4 cm

Provenance:

F. Albert Brockhaus, Leipzig, purchased in 1896

Sotheby’s London, 14th November 1996, lot 420

Eskenazi, London

Private collection, Milan

Sydney L. Moss, London

Private collection, Moscow

Literature:

Brockhaus, ‘Netsuke’, p. 35, no. 61

Moss, ‘More Things in Heaven and Earth, 2006, no. 15

MR2474