Project Description
Wood and Tortoise-shell Netsuke of Turtles by Komin
Exquisitely carved, as is usual for the artist, the parent turtle of wood, its fleshy parts with ukibori pimples, the young of tortoise-shell, its eyes inlays of dark material ringed with gilt metal. The himotoshi are ringed with stained stag antler
Signed on a shell tablet. Circa 1870
Length: 3.6 cm
MR4739
