The Katchen Collection of Netsuke – Part II

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Lot 189
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OKAME AND MUSHROOM BY KISHOSAI

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Description

  • OKAME AND MUSHROOMBY KISHOSAI
  • Signed Kishosai

  • Wood

  • 3.5cm., 1 3/8 in.
Seated cross-legged, naked to the waist, smiling coyly as she  holds  an enormous mushroom (matsutake), to her chest. 

Literature

Two examples thus signed, both ivory Manju, are recorded in The Meinertzhagen Card Index, p.343.