A fine Nagoya school cherrywood netsuke of a tanuki and a hunter, by Ichimin. Mid-19th century - image-1

Lot 832 Dα

A fine Nagoya school cherrywood netsuke of a tanuki and a hunter, by Ichimin. Mid-19th century

Auction 1044 - overview Cologne
06.12.2014, 10:30 - The Kolodotschko Collection of Netsuke, Japanese Art
Estimate: 1.500 € - 1.800 €
Result: 1.736 € (incl. premium)
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A fine Nagoya school cherrywood netsuke of a tanuki and a hunter, by Ichimin. Mid-19th century

A screaming hunter is smothered by the huge distended scrotum of a tanuki, the badger standing on top, the underside carefully carved with the sandaled feet, the large straw hood and the gun of the hunter. Signed Ichimin with kaô.
Height 2.5 cm; width 3.7 cm

Provenance

Dr E. Franckel, Vienna (sold at Klefisch, Cologne, 8.5.1994, lot 20)
Teddy Hahn (1933-2012), Darmstadt, Germany
Barry Davies (1948-2005), London

Literature

Barry Davies 1996, cat. no. 106
Barry Davies 2002, N03400
München 2004, p. 38, no. 115