**SOLD** Wood Netsuke of a Persimmon Fruit, by Bazan

Wood Netsuke of a Persimmon Fruit, by Bazan

The fruit carved with a twig and partly insect eaten leaf which curves around it, a diminutive crab seeking shelter beneath, but still party exposed

Incised signature. Gifu. Circa 1860

Width: 3.3 cm

Provenance:

Alain Ducros, Paris, 1985, from whom purchased by Jacques Carré, Belgium, published in the Eskenazi catalogue of his collection, 1993, no. 239, in which there is a good succinct account of the tale of the rivalry between the crab and the monkey alluded to here

MR4822 Located in Europe