Lot 1110
  • 1110

TWO IVORY NETSUKE OF HORSES, 18TH AND EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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Description

  • 5.7 and 3.2cm., 2 1/4 and 1 1/4 in.
the First of a typical grazing horse, standing with its head lowered to the left, the ivory bearing a good patina; the Second is a small group of three horses frolicking among stands of bamboo, signed Morinobu

Literature

The second item is illustrated in George Lazarnick, Netsuke and Inro Artists and How To Read Their Signatures, p.800
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