Five Carved Netsuke
Sale 830 - Japanese and Korean Works of Art
Sep 25, 2020
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
Estimate
$600 -
$800
Sold for $500
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Five Carved Netsuke
19TH-20TH CENTURY
comprising four boxwood examples, the first carved in the form of a swimming cat fish, signed Hidemasa 秀正; the second also carved to show a catfish, signed; the third showing two rams in a mountain, unsigned; the fourth depicting a crouching evil with his mouth wide open, signed; a resin example in the form of a recumbent shishi lion, unsigned.
Length of largest 2 in., 5 cm.
Property from the Estate of WM Bogdanowicz, Madison, Wisconsin and Naples, Florida
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