A JAPANESE BOXWOOD NETSUKE OF A MYTHICAL KIRIN, AFTER TOMOTADA

Kyoto, 19th Century

Seated, stretching its neck upwards and opening its mouth to howl, long whiskers and the mane falling on the scaly body, contrasting against the flames and the tail raising upwards, the pupils inlaid, bearing an engraved signature Tomotada,

9.5cm high

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PROVENANCE:

European Private Collection

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NOTE:

For a similar wood netsuke also attributed as after Tomotada, please see the Julius and Arlette Katchen Collection of Fine Netsuke Part III, Bonhams, London, 6 November 2018, Lot 176 (£9,375 inc. premium); another from the Robert S. Huthart Collection of Iwami Netsuke Part I, Bonhams, London, 15 May 2019, Lot 170 (£40,062.50 inc. premium)