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ADAM BLAND: A SUPERB WOOD NETSUKE OF SANSUKUMI AND CHESTNUT
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05月09日 晚上7点 开拍 / 05月07日 下午3点 截止委托
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ADAM BLAND: A SUPERB WOOD NETSUKE OF SANSUKUMI AND CHESTNUT

By Adam Bland, signed with the artist’s initials
United Kingdom, 2024

Superbly carved to depict the sansukumi gathered on a half-eaten chestnut, the toad perched on the far side, its eyes inlaid in pale horn, facing the snake that emerges from a hole in the chestnut, the snake’s eyes and tongue inlaid in dark horn. The underside reveals the remarkably carved interior of the chestnut, housing a snail and the coiling tail of the snake which ingeniously forms the cord attachment. The side signed with the artist’s initials AB.

LENGTH 3.4 cm

Condition: Excellent condition.

With a wooden storage box, inscribed ‘Sansukumi and chestnut 2024’ beside the artist’s initials.

Adam Bland is a contemporary netsuke artist from the north of England who has studied the craft of netsuke for several years. He has a qualification in Fine Art and Design and first discovered netsuke accidentally following a career in architectural model making. He was drawn to the art of netsuke as they combine elements of design with fine art to create small, intricate sculptures rich with narrative and meaning. Adam Bland has recently exhibited at the International Netsuke Society Convention in Amsterdam in 2022 and his craft is constantly improving, making him one of the most exciting contemporary carvers to emerge in these past years.

The combination of snake, frog, and snail (or slug) constitutes the sansukumi motif. Sansukumi translates to ‘the three who are afraid of one another’. The three animals are in a state of mutually assured destruction: the snake will consume the frog, however the frog has already eaten a poisonous snail, so the snake must perish as well. This motif is connected to sansukumi-ken, a category of Japanese hand games played by using three hand gestures. The oldest sansukumi-ken game is mushi-ken, a game originally from China. In mushi-ken, the ‘frog’ represented by the thumb wins against the ‘slug’ represented by the pinkie finger, which, in turn defeats the ‘snake’ represented by the index finger, which wins against the ‘frog’. Although this game was imported from China, the Japanese version differs in the animals represented. In adopting the game, the original Chinese characters for centipede or millipede were apparently confused with the characters for the ‘slug’. The centipede was chosen because of the Chinese belief that the centipede was capable of killing a snake by climbing and entering its head. One of the few surviving sansukumi-ken games is jan-ken, which was brought to the West in the 20th century as rock paper scissors.

Auction comparison:
Compare a related wood netsuke of a tiger by Adam Bland, dated 2023, at Zacke, Fine Netsuke & Sagemono, 28 April 2023, Vienna, lot 319, (sold for EUR 7,150).

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