AN IVORY NETSUKE

SIGNED OKAKOTO (KYOTO), EDO PERIOD (LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY)

细节

AN IVORY NETSUKE
Signed Okakoto (Kyoto), Edo Period (Late 18th/Early 19th Century)
Of a seated tiger, its long tail against its back, its head turned and looking down at the ground, one forepaw raised, katabori, ivory, with stained details and eyes inlaid in black horn; signed within a slightly raised rectangular reserve Okakoto
1.1/8in. (2.9cm.) high

来源

Jacques H. Carr Collection

出版

Bulletin de l'Association Franco-Japonaise (March 1984), p. 12, fig. 26
Eskenazi Limited, Japanese Netsuke from the Carr Collection (London, 1993), cat. no. 156

拍品专文

Ueda Reikichi records that this artist was a pupil of Okatomo1. For a similar example, see Seibu Hyakkaten [Seibu Department Store], Netsuke: Edo kara gendai e [Netsuke: From Edo to the present] (Tokyo, 1992)

1 Raymond Bushell (ed.), The Netsuke Handbook of Ueda Reikichi (First published as Ueda Reikichi, Netsuke no kenkyu [A Study of Netsuke], Osaka, 1943; Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo, 1961), p. 271, no. 783