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Two ivory netsuke depicting seashell themes 18th/19th century A…
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Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
22-Nov-2010
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Description:
Two ivory netsuke depicting seashell themes 18th/19th century A charming group of molluscs and a crab in well patinated ivory Signed Ryugoku, 3 cm wide. Note: By descent school of Garaku, working in Tokyo 1850-1870, Meinertzhagen illustrates several pieces and devotes pages to this artist, one piece illustrated is group of mushrooms, very similar to this group of shells. (Meinertzhagen Card Index on Netsuke in the British Museum 1986); together with an ivory study of a clam shell with a crab, the piece in two sections an
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Category:
Unclassified