Project Description

Wood Netsuke of a Recumbent Boar, by Sato Masatomo

With somewhat languid expression, its snout pointing skyward

Signed beneath.  Nagoya. Circa 1850

Length: 4.9 cm

Private collection, Germany, acquired from a French collection put together between the World Wars

Fuld lists 84 netsuke by this excellent carver, only 4 of them boars.  1 is in the Museo d’arte Orientale, Genova, another is illustrated in Bushell’s The Wonderful World of Netsuke, pl. 13, and another in Cohen’s In Search of Netsuke and Inro, pl. XV, no. 241.  The illustration of the last is poor, and at first glance I thought it might be the present netsuke, but the provenance militates against the idea

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