NETSUKE: TURTLE.
Japan. Edo period. Early 19th c.
Tortoise; almost hidden inside its carapace; details very finely carved from boxwood in ukibori; the large eyes inlaid in black horn. Signed: Goho; a very talented carver from Hiroshima; according to MCI active between 1804-17. Meinertzhagen said he had seen 10 netsuke carved by him. Further information and documents about Goho were lost during the nuclear attack on Hiroshima at the end of World War II. L.5cm. Condition A.
Literature:
-MOA Cologne 2017 for the Cologne Netsuke Convention; Cat. p. 114; no. 192.
Art trade; Van Ham.
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達志影像
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