Project Description
Wood netsuke of a snail on fungus. Circa 1870 by Shigemasa
Another masterpiece of delicate carving, the reishi fungus stippled and lightly stained beneath, dark stained on top, its stem forming the himotoshi. The snail is treated with the same sensitivity, its soft body stippled, a dark stained line running down the ridge, the shell stained from light to dark with a dappled surface
Signed beneath the fungus with rectilinear characters on a smooth rectangular reserve: Shigemasa
Provenance:
Julius and Arlette Katchen collection, Paris
Sold at their sale (part II), Sotheby’s London, 13th July 2006, lot 214, where purchased by the present owner
Literature:
A. Katchen, Netsuke 7, vol. 2, pp. 52-53, no. K630
MR1066
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