Project Description
Tall boxwood netsuke of a Male Dancer by Tomochika
Dancing the ‘suzume odori‘ (sparrow dance) with vigour and visible enjoyment
Signed. Edo.Circa 1850-70
Height: 9.7 cm
Provenance:
H. Seymour Trower collection
Sold at his sale, Glendinings London, 31st March 1913, lot 74 (illustrated in the catalogue on pl. IV)
Private collection, Austria
MR4692