An Edo/Tokyo school netsuke of two feasting kappa, by Ryûchin. Second half 19th century - image-1

Lot 950 Dα

An Edo/Tokyo school netsuke of two feasting kappa, by Ryûchin. Second half 19th century

Auction 1044 - overview Cologne
06.12.2014, 10:30 - The Kolodotschko Collection of Netsuke, Japanese Art
Estimate: 900 € - 1.200 €
Result: 1.116 € (incl. premium)
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An Edo/Tokyo school netsuke of two feasting kappa, by Ryûchin. Second half 19th century

Sitting opposite each other with food on a lotos leaf and a sake jar between them, one kappa pouring sake into the other kappa’s goblet. Signed Ryûchin.
Height 2.9 cm; length 4.6 cm

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Provenance

H. Trower Seymour, London (-between 1911-1913), paper label with the number 14 in brown ink (listed in H.L. Joly, The Catalogue of the H. Seymour Trower Collection of Japanese Art, London, Glendining & Co., Ltd., 1913, 525a)