An Edo wood netsuke of a boy with a shishi mask and a drum. Early 19th century - image-1
An Edo wood netsuke of a boy with a shishi mask and a drum. Early 19th century - image-2
An Edo wood netsuke of a boy with a shishi mask and a drum. Early 19th century - image-3
An Edo wood netsuke of a boy with a shishi mask and a drum. Early 19th century - image-4
An Edo wood netsuke of a boy with a shishi mask and a drum. Early 19th century - image-5
An Edo wood netsuke of a boy with a shishi mask and a drum. Early 19th century - image-6
An Edo wood netsuke of a boy with a shishi mask and a drum. Early 19th century - image-7
An Edo wood netsuke of a boy with a shishi mask and a drum. Early 19th century - image-8
An Edo wood netsuke of a boy with a shishi mask and a drum. Early 19th century - image-1An Edo wood netsuke of a boy with a shishi mask and a drum. Early 19th century - image-2An Edo wood netsuke of a boy with a shishi mask and a drum. Early 19th century - image-3An Edo wood netsuke of a boy with a shishi mask and a drum. Early 19th century - image-4An Edo wood netsuke of a boy with a shishi mask and a drum. Early 19th century - image-5An Edo wood netsuke of a boy with a shishi mask and a drum. Early 19th century - image-6An Edo wood netsuke of a boy with a shishi mask and a drum. Early 19th century - image-7An Edo wood netsuke of a boy with a shishi mask and a drum. Early 19th century - image-8

Lot 417 Dα

An Edo wood netsuke of a boy with a shishi mask and a drum. Early 19th century

Auction 1249 - overview Cologne
18.06.2024, 11:00 - Asian Art
Estimate: 700 € - 900 €
Result: 756 € (incl. premium)

An Edo wood netsuke of a boy with a shishi mask and a drum. Early 19th century

Seated, the mask covering his entire head, and with a drum between his feet, with his left hand he supports the lower jaw of the mask, and the face of the boy with eyes inlaid in glass is visible in the wide-open mouth. The nails of the drum and the lining of the smaller of the two cord holes of bone. Inscribed Miwa with kao and the character hana.
Height 2.8 cm

Provenance

Private collection, Rhineland Palatinate, acquired in the German art trade in the 1970s/1980s