A boar-tusk netsuke with a cicada and ferns
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Estimate: £4,000 - £5,000
ca. US$5,165 - US$6,457
Price realised: £4,812
ca. US$6,214
Lot number 10*,
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By Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), Iwami Province, dated 1793 The tusk of shallow curvature, carved towards the narrow end with a resting cicada, and engraved in delicate kebori with trailing ferns, signed Iwami-shu (Iwami-no-kuni) Enokawa Seiyodo Tomiharu kyonen rokujunisai shite kore o chokoku toki ni Kansei mizunoto-ushi toshi nari (carved at the age of sixty-two by the Eno River by Seiyodo Tomiharu in the fifth, mizunoto-ushi, year of Kansei [1793]), with seals Kotobuki and Shi(?). 10.2cm (4in).
Informations about the auction |
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| Auction house: | Bonhams London |
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| Title: | The Robert S. Huthart Collection of Iwami Netsuke |
| Date of the auction: | 15 May 2019 |
| Address: |
Bonhams London London, New Bond Street 101 New Bond Street London W1S 1SR Tel: +44 20 7447 7447 Fax : +44 207 447 7401 [email protected] |
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