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Lot 423 D‡α

An ivory manju netsuke of a dragon amidst waves by Hironobu. Second half 19th century

Auction 1249 - overview Cologne
18.06.2024, 11:00 - Asian Art
Estimate: 1.800 € - 2.400 €
Result: 2.268 € (incl. premium)
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An ivory manju netsuke of a dragon amidst waves by Hironobu. Second half 19th century

The coiled dragon of gilded and silvered metal set into a bowl carved with foaming waves. Signed Hironobu in seal characters. The tama, probably of coral, now missing.
Height 2.8 cm; diameter 4.6 cm

Cf. a similar netsuke in the Baur Collection (C 272), signed Katsushika ju Kakuyusai Hironobu. Hironobu embellished his works with mother-of-pearl and coral, or, as here, with metal.
other such netsuke are mentioned in MCI, p.155, or were auctioned at Sotheby's London on 15.12.1976, lot 69, and at Klefisch in Cologne on 8.5.1994, lot 69.

Provenance

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