Komei Ishikawa

Lot 296: TIGER AND CUBS BY ISHIKAWA KOMEI

Name: TIGER AND CUBS BY ISHIKAWA KOMEI
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: 9gmefphojn

Est: £8,000 GBP - £8,500 GBP

Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomJuly 13, 2006

Item Overview

Description

TOKYO

3.5cm., 1 3/8 in.

Tokyo, 1852-1913

The tiger seated, three small cubs playing at her side while another clambers on her back, on a wood base, simulating rockwork with patches of moss inlaid in pale wood and hardstones.

Signed on an inlaid pearl tablet Komei

Wood and ivory

PROVENANCE

W.L. Behrens Collection, no.1556, illustrated in the catalogue, pl.XXIX
Guest Collection, no.1574
Corbin Collection
M.T. Hindson Collection

LITERATURE

Illustrated, The Meinertzhagen Card Index, p.379.
Illustrated, Neil K. Davey, Netsuke, p.139, no.416.

Artist or Maker

Komei Ishikawa

Auction Details

The Katchen Collection of Netsuke ? Part II

Sotheby's

July 13, 2006, 12:00 AM EST

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK

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