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TOMOKAZU: A FINE WOOD NETSUKE OF THREE TORTOISES TOMOKAZU: A FINE WOOD NETSUKE OF THREE TORTOISES Signed Tomokazu 友一 Japan, Gifu, early 19th century, Edo period (1615-1868) Finely carved, the parent shown just emerging from its carapace with the head ever so slightly stretching outwards, two of its young clambering across its back, one on top of the other. The details are naturalistically rendered. Asymmetrical himotoshi to the base and signed within an oval reserve TOMOKAZU. LENGTH 4 cm Condition: Very good condition with minor wear. Museum comparison: A closely related wood netsuke of a turtle mother and young, by Tomokazu, from the Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection, is in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, accession number M.91.250.254. Literature comparison: Compare a closely related wood netsuke of three tortoises, two small ones crawling on the back of a larger one, by Tomokazu, illustrated in Meinertzhagen, Frederick / Lazarnick, George (1986) MCI, Part B, p. 900.

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TOMOKAZU: A FINE WOOD NETSUKE OF THREE TORTOISES TOMOKAZU: A FINE WOOD NETSUKE OF THREE TORTOISES Signed Tomokazu 友一 Japan, Gifu, early 19th century, Edo period (1615-1868) Finely carved, the parent shown just emerging from its carapace with the head ever so slightly stretching outwards, two of its young clambering across its back, one on top of the other. The details are naturalistically rendered. Asymmetrical himotoshi to the base and signed within an oval reserve TOMOKAZU. LENGTH 4 cm Condition: Very good condition with minor wear. Museum comparison: A closely related wood netsuke of a turtle mother and young, by Tomokazu, from the Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection, is in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, accession number M.91.250.254. Literature comparison: Compare a closely related wood netsuke of three tortoises, two small ones crawling on the back of a larger one, by Tomokazu, illustrated in Meinertzhagen, Frederick / Lazarnick, George (1986) MCI, Part B, p. 900.

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