Edo Period 19th century
kosan from The Osaka school
L4.8×D3.2cm
5.6×5.2×1.9cm.
Good condition
The Japanese ivory netsuke depicting a coiled 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.
Provenance: Vienna private collection
Reference：Netsuke & inro artists, and how to read their signatures P681（古山）,Lazarnick, George,Published by Reed Publishers, U.S.A. 1982
MCI, The Meinertzhagen Card Index on Netsuke in the Archives of the British Museum P397-398古山,Frederick Meinertzhagen. Publisher by LISS Incorporated, Alan R. New York,1986
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