Project Description

Solid Red Lacquer Netsuke of a Noh Performer by Matsuki Hōkei

The actor wearing the mask of a demon, kneeling and holding a kimono high over his shoulders

Signed: Hōkei

Height: 3.7 cm

Provenance:

Sale, Christie’s London, 11th November 1991, lot 194, reported in NKJ, 12/1, p. 56

Eskenazi, 1995

Jacques Carré collection

MR3099

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