拍品 52
52
AN IVORY MANJU NETSUKE
AN IVORY MANJU NETSUKE

SIGNED GYOKUYOSAI (EDO), EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

细节
AN IVORY MANJU NETSUKE
Signed Gyokuyosai (Edo), Edo Period (19th Century)
Carved with a variety of tea-ceremony utensils including chagama [tea- kettle], chawan [tea-bowl], hishaku [ladle], hibachi [brazier], the reverse carved with utensils for the Chinese-style sencha ceremony, manju, ivory, with a detachable ivory himotoshi, stained and with stippled decoration, signed on a rectangular reserve with rounded ends Gyokuyosai
1in. (4.4cm.) long

拍品专文

This netsuke interestingly combines utensils from both the classical Japanese chanoyu [tea ceremony] and the Chinese-style sencha which became increasingly popular from the 18th century. For illustrations of the multifarious sencha utensils, see Patricia J. Graham, Tea of the Sages: The Art of Sencha (Honolulu, 1998), pp. 214-6.