A Nagoya school boxwood netsuke of various New Year's delicacies, by Tadashige. 19th century - image-1

Lot 650 Dα

A Nagoya school boxwood netsuke of various New Year's delicacies, by Tadashige. 19th century

Auction 1092 - overview Cologne
09.06.2017, 18:00 - Netsuke and Sagemono
Estimate: 2.500 € - 3.000 €

A Nagoya school boxwood netsuke of various New Year's delicacies, by Tadashige. 19th century

On top of nuts and cooked chestnuts (kachikuri) lie two cooked sardines (tazukuri) and black beans (kuromame), stained black for realism and effect. Signed hôgen Tadashige in ukibori.
Length 4.1 cm

Provenance

Collection Mark T. Hindson (1883-1968), (sold at Sotheby's, London, 1967-1969 )
John Crichton, London, bought at the above sale
Sotheby's, Miami, 12.1.1987, lot 95
Collection Jacque Carré (?-2015), Kapellen, Belgium
Private Collection, Baden-Württemberg

Literature

Illustrated in. N. Davey, Netsuke, London 1974, no. 581 and Eskenazi 1993, p. 164, no. 219