ID 813435
Lot 146 | A CARVED WOOD SCULPTURE (NETSUKE) OF A MOUSE
Estimate value
$ 2 000 – 3 000
TAISHO-SHOWA PERIOD (20TH CENTURY), SIGNED SOKO (MORITA SOKO; 1879-1943)
Carved as a mouse eating a ear of rice sitting on a cover of a straw rice bale (sandawara), signed to underside
1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm.)
Provenance
Bluette H. Kirchhoff Collection
Bonhams New York, 16 September 2009, lot 2067
Literature
Robert Fleischel, So School Netsuke (Tokyo: Yabane, 1998). no. 28.
Kobijutsu Rokusho vol. 27 (2005), 28.
| Medium: | Wood |
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| Historical era: | Showa period, Taisho period |
| Place of origin: | Eastern Asia, Japan |
| Category: | netsuke |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Medium: | Wood |
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| Historical era: | Showa period, Taisho period |
| Place of origin: | Eastern Asia, Japan |
| Category: | netsuke |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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