A WOOD NETSUKE

SIGNED MITSUHIRO (OSAKA, 1810-75), EDO/MEIJI PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

细节

A WOOD NETSUKE
Signed Mitsuhiro (Osaka, 1810-75), Edo/Meiji Period (19th Century)
Of a small chestnut resting on a large namako [sea cucumber], the chestnut slightly worm-eaten, the surface of the namako carefully and realistically rendered, katabori, wood stained in two colours, signed on a rectangular ivory tablet Mitsuhiro
2.5/8in. (6.5cm.) long

拍品专文

For a similar example see Neil K. Davey, Netsuke: A Comprehensive Study Based on the M.T. Hindson Collection (London, 1974), cat. no. 99. According to Ohara Mitsuhiro's well-known autobiographical essay Takarabukuro [Treasure Sack, 1838] he was born in Onomichi, Bingo province (Hiroshima prefecture) but was sent east to Osaka at an early age to make a living from ivory carving1.

1 Kengo Sekido, 'Ohara Mitsuhiro', (Nori Watanabe trans.), International Netsuke Society Journal, 17/1 (Spring 1997), 26-31