Lot 49: * A boar-tusk netsuke with a minogame and ferns By Seiyodo Bunshojo (1764-1838), Iwami Province, dated 1826

A boar-tusk netsuke with a minogame and ferns
By Seiyodo Bunshojo (1764-1838), Iwami Province, dated 1826The small tusk carved in low relief with a minogame, its long tail trailing at the back above ferns which are delicately engraved in kebori, signed Iwami-shu (Iwami-no-kuni) Enokawa Seiyodo Bunshojo rokujusansai chokoku (Seiyodo Bunshojo carved this at the age of sixty-three by the Eno River in Iwami Province). 10cm (3 7/8in).

猪牙彫根付 蓑亀 銘 「石見州可愛河青陽堂文章女六十三歳彫刻」 1826年Published: Earle, Huthart, p.111, no.91.