THE JAPANESE COLLECTION

Tomotada school ivory netsuke

Zodiac collection

N23

An ivory netsuke of a reclining goat with fleecy hair.

Japan, late 18th century
Signed: Tomotada, Kyoto
Provenance: Bluth Collection, Sidney Moss
Published: Item 47 'In Search of Netsuke and Inro' by George A. Cohen.

A good example of the work produced in Kyoto during the late 18th century. The signature, however, is not that of Tomotada, but that of a close pupil.