A fine Kyoto school ivory netsuke of a hungry wolf. Late 18th/early 19th century - image-1

Lot 223 D‡α

A fine Kyoto school ivory netsuke of a hungry wolf. Late 18th/early 19th century

Auction 1124 - overview Cologne
07.12.2018, 13:00 - Japan II - Armour, Netsuke, Inro, Sagemono incl. The Papp Collection II
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 4.250 € (incl. premium)
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A fine Kyoto school ivory netsuke of a hungry wolf. Late 18th/early 19th century

Seated on his hind legs, with laid-back ears and wide-open eyes, the right forepaw resting on a hamaguri. The eye pupils of dark horn. Inscribed Okatomo in a rectangular reserve. Chipped and restored.
Height 3.4 cm

For this unusual subject compare the netsuke signed Tomotada, illustrated in MCI (p. 917) and the wood study of a wolf with hamaguri from the former collection Charles Greenfield, exhibited at Japan House Gallery in 1972 (cat. no. 35).

Provenance

Private collection, Lower Saxony, Germany

Literature

Compare a study of the same motive in wood in: Japanese Works of Art from the Collection of the Late Charles A. Greenfield, Part III, Sotheby's New York, 18.9.1998, lot 53.