~A JAPANESE WOOD KAGAMIBUTA NETSUKE BY OKINARI, EARLY MEIJI PERIOD, CIRCA 1880 the bowl of tagayasan (Indian blackwood) the shakudo plate decorated in soft metals with a sardine, chestnut and leaves in relief over a punched nanako ground, unsigned but with a kao 4.1cm diameter Provenance: F. Meinertzhagen, M.T. Hindson, and Julius and Arlette Katchen collections Published: F. Meinertzhagen, in his card index, p. 624, also in The Art of the Netsuke Carver, no. 153; Sotheby's, London, Hindson sale, 19 March 1968, lot 461; Arlette Katchen, Netsuke 7, Paris, 2010, vol.2, p.220, no.K582
~A JAPANESE WOOD KAGAMIBUTA NETSUKE BY OKINARI, EARLY MEIJI PERIOD, CIRCA 1880 the bowl of tagayasan (Indian blackwood) the shakudo plate decorated in soft metals with a sardine, chestnut and leaves in relief over a punched nanako ground, unsigned but with a kao 4.1cm diameter Provenance: F. Meinertzhagen, M.T. Hindson, and Julius and Arlette Katchen collections Published: F. Meinertzhagen, in his card index, p. 624, also in The Art of the Netsuke Carver, no. 153; Sotheby's, London, Hindson sale, 19 March 1968, lot 461; Arlette Katchen, Netsuke 7, Paris, 2010, vol.2, p.220, no.K582
Auction: European & Asian Works of Art, 24th May, 2017