An ivory netsuke of a toad with Tekkai Sennin's soul. Early 19th century - image-1

Lot 294 D‡α

An ivory netsuke of a toad with Tekkai Sennin's soul. Early 19th century

Auction 1157 - overview Cologne
27.06.2020, 11:00 - Asian Art
Estimate: 2.500 € - 3.000 €
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An ivory netsuke of a toad with Tekkai Sennin's soul. Early 19th century

A huge toad exhaling Tekkai Sennin's soul while the small sennin figure attempts to climb up its right hind leg. Finely carved and engraved, the details stained black, the toad's eyes of light horn with black eye pupils. Inscribed Masatsugu in an oval reserve.
Height 2.4 cm; length 3.8 cm

Provenance

Sammlung Thomas Broom Belfield (1838-1931)
University of Pennsylvania Museum, USA, acc. no. 23-26-34 (handwritten in black ink)
Christie's London, 16.11.1976, lot 43
Collection Karl M. Schwarz (1926-2007), Vienna, sold at Lempertz, Cologne, 7.6.2019, lot 436

Literature

Illustrated in: Karl M. Schwarz, Netsuke Subjects, Vienna 1992, p. 39, no. 50
Netsuke Kenkyukai Study Journal, vol. 12, no 4 (1985), p. 31