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

Auction 1112 - overview Cologne
16.06.2018, 16:31 - The Papp Collection of Netsuke
Estimate: 1.800 € - 2.000 €
Result: 2.728 € (incl. premium)
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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

Provenance

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

Literature

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