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
Reference：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
Footnotes
A fine example of kyaikyokusai’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; and Barry Davies Oriental Art, The Robert S. Huthart Collection of Non-Iwami Netsuke, London, 1998, no.177.
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