Lot 1126 Dα

An Edo school wood netsuke of a kappa on a hamaguri. 19th century

The water sprite crawls over a clam, the two valves of which have closed over his foot, on his back a tortoise’s carapace, the pimply skin rendered in ukibori (worn), the fluid in the depression on top of his head of horn, the eyes of metal-rimmed bone, the umbo of each shell of white glazed ceramic, the flesh of the clam of horn. In the style of Gyokumin.
Height 2.9 cm; width 3.1 cm