Project Description

Tall Flat Pale Wood Netsuke of an Elephant

Conceived with amusing foreshortening, the trunk curving in an elegant calligraphic sweep, the ears curiously engraved with paulownia. One eye has an inlaid dark pupil, and a single himotoshi is bored through the middle
Unsigned. Circa 1820
Height: 6.8 cm
MR4088