An Edo/Tokyo school ivory netsuke of a boy with a tortoise, by Hôjitsu. Second half 19th century - image-1

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An Edo/Tokyo school ivory netsuke of a boy with a tortoise, by Hôjitsu. Second half 19th century

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An Edo/Tokyo school ivory netsuke of a boy with a tortoise, by Hôjitsu. Second half 19th century

Clad in a bib the boy kneels down and grasps the carapace of a tortoise. Signed Hôjitsu.
Height 3.3 cm

Provenienz

Charles A. Greenfield (1903-1997), New York (sold at Sotheby’s, New York, Part III, 24.3.1999, lot 102)
Edward and Marilyn Flower, New York (sold at Christie’s, South Kensington, 12.5.2010, lot 20)