A RARE BOXWOOD MODEL OF A HARIKATA, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Estimate

3,000 - 4,000 GBP

bidding is closed

Description

13.3cm., 5 1/4 in.

of flattened form, one side showing the back of a man wearing a fundoshi, the other showing a woman wearing a koshimaki, each seated on a hibachi which shows traces of black lacquer, unsigned

Provenance

Janek Kahn collection
M.T Hindson collection
Betty Jahss collection

Exhibited

Eskenazi, Ltd., June 1998

Literature

Neil K. Davey, Netsuke, p.416, no.1233

Catalogue Note

For similar examples, see Raymond Bushell, Netsuke Familiar and Unfamiliar, p.114, no.138; B.T. Okada and M.G. Neill, Real and Imaginary Beings, no.85; and Sydney L. Moss, Ltd., Eccentrics in Netsuke, pp.175 and 177, no.121