24th May, 2017 10:00
European & Asian Works of Art
401
~A JAPANESE IVORY MANJU NETSUKE OF A SKELETON PLAYING A BIWA
~A JAPANESE IVORY MANJU NETSUKE OF A SKELETON PLAYING A BIWA, EARLY MEIJI PERIOD, CIRCA 1870 seated within an enfolding lotus leaf, signed Hakuo 4cm high Provenance: Raymond Bushell and Arlette Katchen collections Illustrated: Raymond Bushell, Netsuke Familiar and Unfamiliar, Tokyo & New York, 1973, p.186, no.525; George Lazarnick, Netsuke & Inro Artists and How to Read Their Signatures, Honolulu, 1981, p.437
Sold for £1,500
~A JAPANESE IVORY MANJU NETSUKE OF A SKELETON PLAYING A BIWA, EARLY MEIJI PERIOD, CIRCA 1870 seated within an enfolding lotus leaf, signed Hakuo 4cm high Provenance: Raymond Bushell and Arlette Katchen collections Illustrated: Raymond Bushell, Netsuke Familiar and Unfamiliar, Tokyo & New York, 1973, p.186, no.525; George Lazarnick, Netsuke & Inro Artists and How to Read Their Signatures, Honolulu, 1981, p.437
Auction: European & Asian Works of Art, 24th May, 2017
