A rare and interesting ivory netsuke of two blowfish and two eggplants. Mid-19th century - image-1
A rare and interesting ivory netsuke of two blowfish and two eggplants. Mid-19th century - image-2
A rare and interesting ivory netsuke of two blowfish and two eggplants. Mid-19th century - image-3
A rare and interesting ivory netsuke of two blowfish and two eggplants. Mid-19th century - image-4
A rare and interesting ivory netsuke of two blowfish and two eggplants. Mid-19th century - image-5
A rare and interesting ivory netsuke of two blowfish and two eggplants. Mid-19th century - image-6
A rare and interesting ivory netsuke of two blowfish and two eggplants. Mid-19th century - image-7
A rare and interesting ivory netsuke of two blowfish and two eggplants. Mid-19th century - image-1A rare and interesting ivory netsuke of two blowfish and two eggplants. Mid-19th century - image-2A rare and interesting ivory netsuke of two blowfish and two eggplants. Mid-19th century - image-3A rare and interesting ivory netsuke of two blowfish and two eggplants. Mid-19th century - image-4A rare and interesting ivory netsuke of two blowfish and two eggplants. Mid-19th century - image-5A rare and interesting ivory netsuke of two blowfish and two eggplants. Mid-19th century - image-6A rare and interesting ivory netsuke of two blowfish and two eggplants. Mid-19th century - image-7

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A rare and interesting ivory netsuke of two blowfish and two eggplants. Mid-19th century

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A rare and interesting ivory netsuke of two blowfish and two eggplants. Mid-19th century

One fugu lies on top of two ripe eggplants, while the second fugu sits on one of the nasubi’s branches, the bulbous shapes carved in anabori to show landscapes identified in katakana syllabary as Shichirihama and Kanazawa on the two nasubi and Enoshima on one of the fugu, each scene depicts Mount Fuji in the background.
Height 2.8 cm; length 4.3 cm

Provenienz

Purchased from Pollmer, Munich, August 1972
The Papp Collection (no. 907)