THE JAPANESE COLLECTION

Tomokazu wood netsuke

Zodiac collection

N18

A fine wood netsuke of a dragon coiled around a tama (the sacred pearl of knowledge).

Japan, 19th century
Signed: Tomokazu, Gifu
Provenance: Sotheby's
Published: Item 227 'In Search of Netsuke and Inro' by George A. Cohen.

A fine and typical work by Kano Tomokazu, who worked in Gifu during the first half of the nineteenth century.