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A COROZO NUT NETSUKE OF DAIKOKU
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2023年12月01日 开拍 / 2023年11月29日 截止委托
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A COROZO NUT NETSUKE OF DAIKOKU

By Gyokuzan, signed Gyokuzan 玉山
Japan, 19th century

A pleasingly tactile and well-carved, stained corozo nut netsuke depicting the lucky god Hotei. The laughing deity carved with a wrinkled and high forehead with crinkled eyes flanked by huge ears, a symbol of good luck, the outer skin of the nut surrounding the head like a headdress. Himotoshi to the back and signed in a sunken reserve GYOKUZAN.

HEIGHT 3.9 cm

Condition: Very good condition with minor wear and natural imperfections.
Provenance: Collection of Robert and Isabelle de Strycker, acquired from the above. Robert de Strycker (1903-1968) was a French engineer who specialized in metallurgy. He was a Stanford graduate, a professor at the University of Leuven, a director of the Institute of Metallurgy at the Université Catholique de Louvain, and one of the most influential members of the faculty of applied sciences. After World War II, he made large contributions to France’s post-war recovery. Robert and his wife Isabelle (1915-2010) first encountered Chinese art at the British Museum during a stay in London in the 1930s. Enamored with the style and beauty, they both decided to study and collect Japanese and Chinese works of art. In 1938 they eventually began to build their collection, buying from Belgian, Parisian, and English dealers. They kept close contact with the famous English collector Sir Harry Garner (1891-1977) and noted Czech collector and expert Fritz Low-Beer (1906-1976). In 1964, the couple lent 174 objects from their collection to the Belgian city of Leuven’s museum for an exhibition titled Oude kunst in Leuvens Privébezit (‘Old Art in Private Collections in Leuven’), and in 1967 they lent around thirty Japanese objects to the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels for their exhibition Kunst van Japan im belgischen Privatverzameingen (‘Japanese Art in Belgian Private Collections’).

This material is rarely encountered in netsuke art as it is notoriously difficult to carve but was on occasion used by carvers of the Tokyo school. It was probably brought to Japan by the Dutch. Corozo nut is also known as ‘vegetable ivory’ due to its similar appearance.

Museum comparison:
Compare a closely related corozo netsuke of Fukurokuju, by Gyokuzan, formerly in the Trumpf collection and now in the Linden Museum Stuttgart, inventory number OA 18738.

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