A Wood Model of a Shishi, by Tametaka, Nagoya, 18th century

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Description

5.1cm., 2 in.

seated on its haunches, its head turned slightly to the left and its open mouth containing a loose ball as it rests its fore paws on a large smooth ball, the well patinated wood is somewhat worn and the eye pupils are inlaid with ebony, signed Tametaka

Catalogue Note

For another shishi by Tametaka in similar style, see Alain Ducros, Netsuke et Sagemono, pp. 80/81, no. 107