NETSUKE EN BOIS REPRÉSENTANT UN ÉLÉPHANT ET UN... Lot 101
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NETSUKE EN BOIS REPRÉSENTANT UN ÉLÉPHANT ET UN KARAKO
Par Tsuji, Osaka, mi-/fin du XVIIIe siècle
A WOOD NETSUKE OF AN ELEPHANT AND A KARAKO (CHINESE BOY)
By Tsuji, Osaka, mid/late 18th century
The elephant standing, turning its head back, its exaggeratedly long trunk raised and dynamically curled into a circle at the end, the karako hoisting himself on the elephant's back covered with an elaborate caparison, holding down a large oval fan in his right hand; signed with a kao. 12.6cm (5in) high.
Footnotes:
木彫根付 象に唐子 銘「(花押)」 18世紀中期/後期
Provenance:
Purchased from Alain Ducros, December 1986.
Published:
Ducros, NS, pp.56, 59.
Exhibited and Published:
International Netsuke Society, PE, no.57.
Bandini, IAN, p.77, no.146.
NS19, p.75, no.127.
For another example of an elephant (mounted by a Dutchman) by the artist, see Sydney L. Moss, MRN, no.28.
Elephants are, of course, not native to Japan but a small number arrived as high-level gifts during the Edo period (1615-1868), most famously a pair imported from Vietnam to Nagasaki on a Chinese ship in 1728 on the orders of shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune. The female soon died but the male was brought all the way to Edo (present-day Tokyo), a distance of over 1,200 km, and lived until 1743. For a contemporary illustration of this celebrated beast, see www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/73590. Images of this kind would have been a source of inspiration for Tsuji and other carvers.
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