ID 813476
Lot 152 | A CARVED WOOD SCULPTURE (NETSUKE) OF PICKLED CUCUMBERS AND SNOW PEA
Estimate value
$ 2 000 – 3 000
TAISHO-SHOWA PERIOD (20TH CENTURY), SIGNED GYOKUSO TO (OUCHI GYOKUSO; 1879-1944)
Carved as a netsuke of three pickled cucumbers stained in dark olive green with inlaid details of black spots, signed to a snow pea-shaped plaque on reverse
1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm.) long
Provenance
Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection
Bluette H. Kirchhoff Collection
Bonhams New York, 16 September 2009, lot 2048
Literature
Robert Fleischel, So School Netsuke (Tokyo: Yabane, 1998). exh. cat. no. 91.
Raymond Bushell, Collectors' Netsuke (New York: Weatherhill, 1971). no. 261.
Kobijutsu Rokusho vol. 27 (1991), 62.
| Medium: | Wood |
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| Historical era: | Showa 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 |
| Place of origin: | Eastern Asia, Japan |
| Category: | netsuke |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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