Live Auction 13988Art of Japan
A WOOD NETSUKE OF A RAT WITH TWO YOUNG
Lot 4 A PRIVATE LONDON COLLECTION OF NETSUKE FORMED IN THE 1960s - 1970s

A WOOD NETSUKE OF A RAT WITH TWO YOUNG

SIGNED IKKO, EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

Closed5 December 2017

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GBP 2,500

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A WOOD NETSUKE OF A RAT WITH TWO YOUNG
SIGNED IKKO, EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
A fine study of a rat eating millet with two of its young, one standing on its back and one next to it eating millet, the fur and other details finely incised and stained, the eyes inlaid in dark cow horn
4.8cm. high

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Purchased by the collector from A Collection of Choice Japanese Netsukes in Ivory and Wood, Glendining & CO, London, Wednesday 20th October 1968, Lot 107