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Netsuke — Oriental - Gibson's Auctioneers & Valuers

$5,368
A boxwood netsuke of Kwanyu, 19th century carved wearing long…
$2,928
A boxwood netsuke of Ashinaga and an octopus, Edo period, 19th…
$2,280
A collection of small carvings comprising seven ivory netsuke,…
$536
Four Japanese netsuke, 19th century the largest 5 cm
Auction House:
Gibson's Auctioneers & Valuers
Number of lots recorded:13
Lots with images:13
Prices available:13
Category:
Netsuke
LotDescriptionPriceImage
*** A boxwood netsuke of Kwanyu, 19th century carved wearing long robes and armour, carrying his halberd and holding his long beard 10 cm high ***
*** A boxwood netsuke of Ashinaga and an octopus, Edo period, 19th century the tall standing figure finely carved with a flowing beard holding and octopus 11 cm high ***
*** A collection of small carvings comprising seven ivory netsuke, a hornbill snuff bottle, a tobacco pouch, pipe and netsuke, a small horn container and a wood mask netsuke the pipe 21 cm long ***
*** Four Japanese netsuke, 19th century the largest 5 cm ***
*** Four Japanese deer antler netsuke, 19th century the largest 10 cm high ***
*** A kagamibuta silver and ivory netsuke, 19th century with a shibuichi plate relief decorated with a swordsmith 4 cm diameter ***
*** A group of four ivory animal netsuke, 19th century comprising a puppy with inlaid eyes chewing his foot, a rat in a gourd, a dog on a drum and a snake squeezing a frog the largest 4 cm high ***
*** A group of four ivory netsuke, 18th and 19th century comprising a figure of Shoki, two boys playing leap frog, two men with a giant sack and a fish and a carving of two sumo wrestlers the largest 5.5 cm high ΒΆ ***
*** Japanese ivory okimono of Ashinga-jin, Meiji period a small Japanese carved ivory okimono and a wood netsuke, Meiji period and later carved as a figure of ashinga standing on a circular carved box decorated with dragons: The wood netsuke carved as a mouse… ***
*** A group of four ivory netsuke, 19th century comprising a a hen with a chick, a seated boar, a recumbent water buffalo and two frogs the water buffalo 6 cm wide ***
*** Two ivory netsuke, 19th century comprising a snake on a lily pad with a boxwood ojime and a carving of a figure with a horse and gourd; together with an ivory incense box with a Bakelite base the largest 6 cm long ***
*** Three ivory kirin netsuke, 19th/early 20th century comprising a seated kirin with head turned, a baying Kirin with up-stretched neck and a standing kirin the largest 9 cm high ***
*** A carved wood netsuke, Meiji period, in the form of a recumbent ox, the details finely delineated in the dark wood, 4.5 cm long ***