The Katchen Collection of Netsuke – Part II

/

Lot 188
  • 188

ONI MASK BY SHUOSAI HIDEMASA II

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
Log in to view results
bidding is closed

Description

  • ONI MASKBY SHUOSAI HIDEMASA II
  • Signed Shuosai Hide with Kakihan
  • Ivory
  • 4.2cm., 1 5/8 in.
The oni is characteristically rendered with humour.  His fangs protruding over a clamped mouth, short incurved horns and round staring eyes, the reverse carved in kebori with a fan.  

Literature

For very similar examples by Shuosai Hidemasa, see Neil K. Davey and Susan G Tripp, The Garrett Collection, Japanese Art, p.279, no.384; and George Lazarnick, Netsuke and Inro Artists and How To Read Their Signatures, p.460.