An ivory netsuke of two hares. 19th century - image-1

Lot 1131 Dα

An ivory netsuke of two hares. 19th century

Auktion 1112 - Übersicht Köln
16.06.2018, 16:31 - The Papp Collection of Netsuke
Schätzpreis: 1.200 € - 1.400 €

An ivory netsuke of two hares. 19th century

An adult hare and a young are sitting across each other in an almost human fashion, placing their forepaws on the other’s legs and ‘shoulders’ respectively. The ivory well polished, the eyes of the hares of coral.
Height 5.1 cm

Provenienz

Through Grete Damm, Munich, November 1983 (probably in the Damm Collection before 1961)
The Papp Collection no. 510 (handwritten)

Literaturhinweise

Illustrated in: Von einem Sammler / By a collector: Der Hase – The hare, in: Netsuke, vol. 1, no. 5 (1961), p. 9, fig. 6