A Boldly carved ivory study of tengu no tamago by Risuke Garaku, Osaka, late 18th/early 19th century

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

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Description

5.1cm., 2in.

the karasu tengu levering itself out of a large egg, its face showing the strain as it attempts to pry the shell open, the slightly worn ivory bears a good patina and the eyes are inlaid, signed Garaku

Exhibited

Eskenazi, Ltd., June 1998

Literature

George Lazarnick, The Signature Book of Netsuke, Inro and Ojime Artists in Photographs, p.154
INCS Journal, 1980, vol.8, no.3, p.30