Project Description

Wood Netsuke of a Frog on Well Cover by Shigemasa

The creature’s body stippled and lightly stained, the eyes strikingly rendered in a subtler repetition of the same technique, while the well cover is carved with deep grooves imitating a soft wood and stained dark, contrasting with the reddish-brown colour of the frog

Signed in a rectangular reserve: Shigemasa with kaō. Yamada-Ise. Circa 1900

Length: 4.4 cm

Information:

Compare with another in Paris Edo, no. 110 and with two similar netsuke in the Bushell collection at LACMA, illustrated in Goodall et al., nos. 417 and 418

MR3339