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A boxwood and ivory netsuke of a mask of a kamifuki player. Late 19th century - image-1A boxwood and ivory netsuke of a mask of a kamifuki player. Late 19th century - image-2A boxwood and ivory netsuke of a mask of a kamifuki player. Late 19th century - image-3A boxwood and ivory netsuke of a mask of a kamifuki player. Late 19th century - image-4A boxwood and ivory netsuke of a mask of a kamifuki player. Late 19th century - image-5

Lot 585 D‡α

A boxwood and ivory netsuke of a mask of a kamifuki player. Late 19th century

Auction 1157 - overview Cologne
27.06.2020, 11:00 - Asian Art
Estimate: 350 € - 400 €
Result: 1.125 € (incl. premium)
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A boxwood and ivory netsuke of a mask of a kamifuki player. Late 19th century

With a furrowed brow with a comma-shaped symbol at the centre, inlaid in ivory to represent a piece of paper. Very finely carved, engraved and with the remains of a black lacquer coating in the folds on the forehead and around the nose and mouth. Signed Shûgetsu on an inlaid bone tablet.
Height 4 cm

Provenance

Estate of Albert Brockhaus (1855 – 1921)

Literature

Brockhaus, p. 461, no. 345
Cf. MCI, p. 767 featuring a mask netsuke with this signature, dated to the early Meiji period