A TALL BOXWOOD SASHI NETSUKE OF ASHINAGA BY CHIKUSAI, TOKYO, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Estimate

3,000 - 4,000 GBP

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Description

13.7cm., 5 3/8 in.

he stands, his body slightly twisted and wearing a shippo-decorated skirt as he holds aloft a red lacquered bowl containing a miniature dragon, a drum-shaped pouch slung at his waist, signed Chikusai

Provenance

Mark Severin collection

Exhibited

Eskenazi Ltd., June 1998

Literature

George Lazarnick, Netsuke and Inro Artists and How To Read Their Signatures, p.671 (listed as Kosai)