乙巳大吉ー根付宗师怀玉斋正次牙雕白蛇

铭(怀玉斋)正次

大阪派

長约5.6cm

最大直径约5.2×高1.9cm

重约22.7g

19世纪中期

绝美

怀玉斋正次的铭记代表根附制作的最高水平,无论从哪个方面来讲都近乎完美,永远是根附爱好者收藏者的终极目标之一。他从日常生活中寻找灵感,并自己设计选材。其作品多被皇家贵族所收藏,市面难得一见。正次不惜重金,只取材最顶级的象牙牙芯部位。嗜酒,醉后灵感突现方才开始雕刻。

日文白蛇等于白龙——白色的蛇=龙。三国演义开篇“汉高祖刘邦斩(白)蛇起义”,翻译成日文白蛇就变成了“白龙”。白蛇和龙价值相当,并且是正次早年作品,举世罕见。

正次以精雕细琢和只选用牙芯著称,广义古代日本最后的“法眼”(中文直译官方公认宗师),黑船来袭时即被美国人视为日本顶级艺术品。血拼美国人拿下也是机缘巧合,美国人文化水平有限,对于中日古典题材终究是外行。比如白蛇为何是幸运的象征,想真正明白得研究刘邦,显然不现实。

龙蛇之所以昂贵,题材罕见数量稀少是主因,更重要的是绳孔极难设计,龙厚,尚且可想方设法打洞。蛇薄,只能利用自然空隙,因此刻蛇难度大于龙。正次的白蛇刻鳞雕齿一丝不苟,局部镂雕呈蜂窝状。黑松镶嵌的双眼活灵活现,栩栩如生。气势凶猛,宛如飞龙盘旋云层中,没有后世的卡通化形象。落款笔走龙蛇,规矩硬朗,白蛇从各个角度观察都经得起考验,威武雄壮,神态安详,已经是传说中的神兽而非十二干支的普通蛇。

参考:Netsuke & inro artists, and how to read their signatures P564(懐玉堂正次),Lazarnick, George,Published by Reed Publishers, U.S.A. 1982

MCI, The Meinertzhagen Card Index on Netsuke in the Archives of the British Museum P301懐玉斎正次,Frederick Meinertzhagen. Publisher by LISS Incorporated, Alan R. New York,1986

The Japanese ivory netsuke of a coiled white snake by kyaikyokusai masatsuku

Signed by masatsuku懐玉斎(正次)

Edo Period Mid-19th century

5.6×5.2×1.9cm.

Good condition

The Japanese ivory netsuke depicting a coiled white snake squeezing  between the coils. Powerful and of great quality with very fine details. The snake with open jaws and the tongue out make this netsuke a work of great effect and that strikes us immediately. signed in a rectangular reserve masatsugu(kyaikyokusai).

Provenance: Vienna private collection

Footnotes

A fine example of Sukenaga’s work, of which similar examples are illustrated in Marie-Thérèse Coullery and Martin Newstead, The Baur Collection Geneva: Netsuke (Selected Pieces), Geneva, Collections Baur, 1977, no.C954; George Lazarnick, Netsuke and Inro Artists and How to Read Their Signatures, Honolulu, Reed Publishers, 1982, p.1047; Frederick Meinertzhagen, MCI: The Meinertzhagen Card Index on Netsuke in the Archives of the British Museum, New York, Alan R. Liss Inc., 1986, p.826; and Barry Davies Oriental Art, The Robert S. Huthart Collection of Non-Iwami Netsuke, London, 1998, no.177.

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