Project Description
Wood Netsuke of a Rat by Futatomo
Crouching on top of an edamame bean which it clutches with three paws. Its eyes are cabochons of dark buffalo horn
Signed. Circa 1860
Length: 4.3 cm
Provenance:
Anonymous sale, Christie’s NY, 4th December 1986, lot 240
Alan Liss (Sotheby’s Chicago, 2nd September 1993, lot 61) and Eberhard Schmidt-Böthelt collections, now being sold by a Belgian collector
MR3368
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