STANDING HORSE BY TOMOTADA

Estimate

40,000 - 45,000 GBP

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Description

STANDING HORSEBY TOMOTADA
Signed in a rectangular reserve Tomotada
Ivory, the eye pupils inlaid
5.8cm., 2 1/4 in.

Standing, its head turned down to the right, one fore leg raised and its tail swishing around to its right flank, the somewhat worn ivory bears a good patina.

Literature

Very few Netsuke of horses by Tomotada are known. For similar examples in wood, see Neil K. Davey, Netsuke, p.69, no.177 and Tomotada and Okatomo in relation to the Kyoto School of Netsuke Carvers, by Anne Hull Grundy, The Antique Collector, June 1963, p.112, figs.24 and 25.