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Lot 228 N ‡ α

An ivory netsuke of sansukumi. Ca. 1880

Auction 1146 - overview Cologne
06.12.2019, 14:00 - Japan, India/South-East Asia
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 7.440 € (incl. premium)
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An ivory netsuke of sansukumi. Ca. 1880

The winding snake with a flicking tongue encircles a skull and faces the climbing frog and crawling small snail on top of the cranium. Skin and details of the snake are excellently carved. The pupils of black glass, the inlaid eyes of the frog lost. Along with a card by F. Meinertzhagen with a coloured drawing of an almost identical netsuke.
Height 3 cm; width 5 cm

Provenance

Collection Jack A. und Helen Mang, Alexandria, VA, USA, purchased in 1959 from Frederick Meinertzhagen (1881-1962), London, and sold at Qinn's, Falls Church, VA, 7.12.2012, lot 513
Private collection, collected between 1985 and 2017

Exhibitions

Student Center, 29.8.-25.9.1960