A kurogaki (black persimmon) wood netsuke of a recumbent ox
By Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), Iwami Province, late 18th/early 19th centuryLying with its legs folded compactly beneath its body, its halter wound tightly around its horns, the other end connecting to its nose piece, the wood with some paler patches along the spine, its eyes inlaid in light and dark horn; signed in a polished rectangular reserve Seiyodo Tomiharu. 5.8cm (2?in).
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黒柿彫根付 臥牛 銘 「青陽堂富春」 18世紀後期/19世紀前期Published:Rokusho 20, p.14, no.18.Earle, Huthart, p.81, no.63.A very similar example, sold in Part I of this collection on 15 May 2019 (lot 33, no.62 in the original catalogue by J. Earle), was erroneously catalogued as no.63 and as having been published as no.18 in Rokusho 20.