A WOOD NETSUKE

(20TH CENTURY), SIGNED SOKO [MORITA KISABURO (1879-1942)]

Details

A WOOD NETSUKE
(20th century), signed soko [morita kisaburo (1879-1942)]
Modelled as kirin standing on its rear legs opening its mouth and raising one of its front legs, signed on an inlaid ivory cartouche
2.1/8in. (5.3cm.) high

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Raymond Bushell, Collectors' Netsuke (New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1971), pl. 272, p. 157.