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An Ivory Netsuke of a Woman Cutting Her Toenails
Lot 15 The Tony & Johanna Oey Collection of Netsuke

An Ivory Netsuke of a Woman Cutting Her Toenails

Signed Yasufusa, Tokyo, Taisho period (early 20th century)

Closed8 December 2016

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GBP 4,375

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An Ivory Netsuke of a Woman Cutting Her Toenails
Signed Yasufusa, Tokyo, Taisho period (early 20th century)
The bespectacled lady with traditional hairstyle and kimono incised with fan and auspicious ju characters, her obi decorated with chrysanthemums against kikko design, seated and bending forward to cut her toenails, details inlaid in tortoiseshell and mother-of-pearl
4 cm. long

Specialist note

For a similar carving of a man cutting his toenails by Yasuaki, see Bernard Hurtig, Masterpieces of Netsuke Art: One Thousand Favourites of Leading Collectors, (Tokyo and New York, 1973), p. 108, no. 411