Project Description

Wood mask netsuke of Oto by Hidari Issan (1804-57)

Pale boxwood with lacquered hair

Signed: Hidari Issan. 19th Century

4.6cm high

Provenance: 

Peter E. Müller, Küsnacht

Literature: 

Max Rutherston, “Japanese Masks, Peter E. Müller”, privately printed, 2017, no. 97

MR2356