A wood netsuke of a rakan warding off a dragon, by Akihide. Around 1980 - image-1

Lot 312 Dα

A wood netsuke of a rakan warding off a dragon, by Akihide. Around 1980

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A wood netsuke of a rakan warding off a dragon, by Akihide. Around 1980

Standing on one foot, looking up and wielding a long pole with a sphere on top as he tries to extricate himself from a dragon wound around his body. The dragon’s eyes inlaid with pale translucent horn, probably backed with gold foil. Signed Akihide (= Kawahara Akihide, born 1934).
Height 9.2 cm

Provenienz

Bonhams, New York, 19.3.2009, lot 419

Literaturhinweise

Brad Blakely, Peregrinations in Japan and a Visit with Carvers in Tokyo and Osaka, in: Netsuke Kenkyukai Study Journal, Vol. 10, No. 2, Summer 1990, p. 36