A very fine boxwood netsuke of a recumbent horse. Early 19th century - image-1

Lot 1107 Dα

A very fine boxwood netsuke of a recumbent horse. Early 19th century

Auktion 1112 - Übersicht Köln
16.06.2018, 16:31 - The Papp Collection of Netsuke
Schätzpreis: 1.800 € - 2.000 €
Ergebnis: 2.728 € (inkl. Aufgeld)

A very fine boxwood netsuke of a recumbent horse. Early 19th century

Reclining with legs folded beneath, the long tail curved around the body, the head slightly turned to the left and mouth open to reveal an upper row of teeth.
Height 2.5 cm; length 4.9 cm

Provenienz

Collection Dr. Franz Weber, Vienna
Through Grete Damm, Munich, March 1980
Coll. no. 506 (handwritten)

Literaturhinweise

Illustrated in: Von einem Sammler / By a collector: Das Pferd / The horse. Uma, in: Netsuke, Vol. 1, no. 7 (1961), p. 8, fig. 8, here referred to as being in author’s collection