A good Tanba school boxwood netsuke of a dragon in a mikan, by Toyoshima. Mid-19th [...]

A good Tanba school boxwood netsuke of a dragon in a mikan, by Toyoshima. Mid-19th century Visible in the three large openings of a mandarin, the large head with open mouth and shaggy beard, a long leaf with veins in ukibori hanging from the stalk. The eye of horn. Signed Toyoshima in an oval cartouche. Height 2.9 cm; width 4.1 cm Provenienz Barry Davies (1948 - 2005), London Christie’s, London, 9.11.2011, lot 175 Literatur Barry Davies Oriental Art, Selected Netsuke, London 2002 (in-house netsuke brochure), N11220A good Tanba school boxwood netsuke of a dragon in a mikan, by Toyoshima. Mid-19th century Visible in the three large openings of a mandarin, the large head with open mouth and shaggy beard, a long leaf with veins in ukibori hanging from the stalk. The eye of horn. Signed Toyoshima in an oval cartouche. Height 2.9 cm; width 4.1 cm Provenance Barry Davies (1948-2005), London Christie’s, London, 9.11.2011, lot 175 Literature Barry Davies 2002, N11220 Barry Davies Oriental Art, Selected Netsuke, London 2002 (in-house netsuke brochure)