A boxwood netsuke of a crayfish. Around 1800 - image-1
A boxwood netsuke of a crayfish. Around 1800 - image-2
A boxwood netsuke of a crayfish. Around 1800 - image-3
A boxwood netsuke of a crayfish. Around 1800 - image-1A boxwood netsuke of a crayfish. Around 1800 - image-2A boxwood netsuke of a crayfish. Around 1800 - image-3

Lot 592 Dα

A boxwood netsuke of a crayfish. Around 1800

Auction 1157 - overview Cologne
27.06.2020, 11:00 - Asian Art
Estimate: 1.200 € - 1.400 €
Result: 3.750 € (incl. premium)

A boxwood netsuke of a crayfish. Around 1800

An obi-hasami netsuke in the form of a crayfish, the end bent over as if folded over the edge of the wearer’s obi. The relief details very carefully carved, engraved and marked. Signed Tomokazu in an oval reserve.
Length 4 cm

Provenance

Estate of Albert Brockhaus (1855 – 1921), acquired at Rex & Co., Berlin, 28.3.1899

Literature

Brockhaus, p. 446, no. 570
Illustrated in: Brockhaus, p. 18