A WOOD NETSUKE

SIGNED ITTAN (NAGOYA AND GIFU, MINO PROVINCE, C. 1820-77), EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

细节

A WOOD NETSUKE
Signed Ittan (Nagoya and Gifu, Mino Province, c. 1820-77), Edo Period (19th Century)
Of two puppies playing, each grabbing the other's hind legs in its front paws, katabori, wood with staining, signed beneath one of the puppies Ittan with a kao
1.3/8in. (3.1cm.)

拍品专文

Ittan lived in both Nagoya and Gifu. He is best known for his rats and sleeping shojo1.

1 Kentaro Akatsu, 'Nagoya School Carvers - Genealogical Update', International Netsuke Society Journal, 17/2 (Summer 1997), pp. 31-2