A Nagoya/Gifu wood netsuke of a Ranryô-ô dancer. 19th century - image-1
A Nagoya/Gifu wood netsuke of a Ranryô-ô dancer. 19th century - image-2
A Nagoya/Gifu wood netsuke of a Ranryô-ô dancer. 19th century - image-1A Nagoya/Gifu wood netsuke of a Ranryô-ô dancer. 19th century - image-2

Lot 478 Dα

A Nagoya/Gifu wood netsuke of a Ranryô-ô dancer. 19th century

Auction 1226 - overview Cologne
21.06.2023, 10:30 - Asian Art
Estimate: 5.000 € - 7.000 €
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A Nagoya/Gifu wood netsuke of a Ranryô-ô dancer. 19th century

Posturing with one hand to his chest as he holds a short baton with the other, wearing a mask with lower jaw hanging down, his robe carved in relief with swirling clouds, a train at the back forming the himotôshi. Inscribed Tadatoshi.
Height 5.5 cm

Provenance

Raymond Bushell (1910-1998), Tokyo/San Francisco, offered at Sotheby's, London, 18.11.1999, lot 130 and sold at Sotheby's Olympia, London, 12.12.2002, lot 356

Literature

Illustrated in: Raymond Bushell, The Netsuke Handbook of Ueda Reikichi, Tokyo 1961, p. 137, fig. 130; Raymond Bushell, Netsuke Masks, Tokyo 1985, no. 337; Raymond Bushell, Questions and Answers, in: NKSJ, vol. 10, no. 3 (summer 1990), p. 13, fig. 7a and b (Bushell discusses here the ukibori and engraved signatures of Tadatoshi, replying to a question regarding a "second" Tadatoshi.)
Cf. an almost identical piece, inscribed Tomokazu, from the Katchen collection, published in: Arlette Katchen, Netsuke 7, Paris 2010, vol. 2, p. 121