JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE BY MASATAMI Early 20th Century
In the form of a snake and frog resting on a hoe. Height 5.5".
Provenance: The Symmes / Shiro Kuma Collection.
Exhibited: Monsanto Gallery, Lander University, Greenwood, South Carolina, September 2011. Birmingham Museum of Art.
Literature: Netsuke, Japanese Life and Legend in Miniature
, p. 94 for an illustration and of this netsuke.
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