Project Description

Wood netsuke of a seated goat by Tametaka 

Seated looking to one side

Signed in ukibori: Tametaka. Nagoya, circa 1780

Height: 4.4 cm

Slightly worn and with minor scorching and restoration to left horn

Provenance: 

Teddy Hahn, Darmstadt

Literature: 

An almost identical one illustrated in A. Ducros, Paris-Edo, no. 6

This version illustrated in R. Bandini, ‘In a Nutshell’, p. 62, no. 114, and

R. Bandini, Japanese netsuke from the collection of Teddy Hahn, November 2014, no. 24, illustrated

MR2065