Tall Wood Netsuke of Seiobo by Hasegawa Ikko

Standing with a long handled basket containing flowers. The robe beneath her surcoat is deeply engraved with karakusa, and a gourd flask is secured behind her between the two himotoshi

Signed on a green stained bone tablet. Circa 1820

Height: 12.4 cm

Provenance:

Harry Glass, Long Island NY

Exhibited:

Shinjuku Keio Department Store, Tokyo, May 1st-13th 1981

Umeda Hankyu Department Store, Osaka, May 23rd-June 17th 1981

Literature:

Ishikawa Masao, catalogue to the Netsuke Exhibition, published by Nihon Keizai Shinbun, no. 32

Barbra Teri Okada, ‘Portrait of an Exhibition: Returning Home’ {review of the Japanese traveling exhibition) in JINCS, 9/2 , p. 22, no. 4.

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