Lot 131 Dα

An Edo school boxwood netsuke of a kappa on a hamaguri, by Gyokumin. 19th century

The water sprite crawls over a ribbed clam, the two valves of which have closed over his foot. The pimply skin rendered in ukibori, the fluid in the depression on the top of his head inlaid in mother-of-pearl, the eyes of gold-rimmed bone. Signed Gyokumin with kaô.
Height 3.7 cm