A COLLECTION OF FOUR WOOD NETSUKE 19th century (5)
Property from the Brocklehurst Collection, Lots 373-379
A COLLECTION OF FOUR WOOD NETSUKE
19th century
Comprising: a wood netsuke of a caparisoned elephant set on an oval base and finely inlaid in the Shibayama-style with pearls and coral, signed Rakuzan; a wood netsuke of Daruma, sitting with legs and arms outstretched, signed Tomochika, the teeth and signature in ivory; a wood netsuke of a blind masseur lifting a large boulder, an eye, tooth and signature panel carved in ivory, signed Gyokukei; and a wood and ivory netsuke of Onna Daruma opening beneath to reveal her genitalia.
The largest 5cm (2in) long. (5).
Footnotes
十九世紀 根付四件
「樂山」「玉珪」「友親」款
Provenance: Lt. Col. Henry Courtney Brocklehurst (1888-1942)
His brother Lt. Col, Sir Philip Lee Brocklehurst Bt, (1887-1975), Swythamley Park, near Macclesfield until 1975
Thence by descent
Exhibited: On long term loan to West Park Museum, Macclesfield, circa 1939-1976
The items within this lot containing ivory have been registered in accordance with the Ivory Act (section 10). Refs.G1JUCZBW, QL2SGDPG and QNJJ5Y84.
Both brothers were extensive travellers and explorers, Sir Philip having been on Shackleton's 1907 – 1909 Nimrod expedition to the Antarctic and who later travelled through both the Middle and Far East. His brother Courtney, who went with him to the Arctic in 1912 and later became game warden of the Sudan in the 1920s, then went on to travel extensively in China, Japan and Tibet in the 1930s, bringing back the first giant panda from Tibet to the UK.
Many of the artefacts collected on these travels were put on loan at the West Park Museum, which had been built by the Brocklehurst family for safe keeping during the war, and when he was killed in 1942 fighting with the Chindits in Burma, his brother Philip inherited the contents of the museum where they remained until after his death in 1975.
Property from the Brocklehurst Collection, Lots 373-379
A COLLECTION OF FOUR WOOD NETSUKE
19th century
Comprising: a wood netsuke of a caparisoned elephant set on an oval base and finely inlaid in the Shibayama-style with pearls and coral, signed Rakuzan; a wood netsuke of Daruma, sitting with legs and arms outstretched, signed Tomochika, the teeth and signature in ivory; a wood netsuke of a blind masseur lifting a large boulder, an eye, tooth and signature panel carved in ivory, signed Gyokukei; and a wood and ivory netsuke of Onna Daruma opening beneath to reveal her genitalia.
The largest 5cm (2in) long. (5).
Footnotes
十九世紀 根付四件
「樂山」「玉珪」「友親」款
Provenance: Lt. Col. Henry Courtney Brocklehurst (1888-1942)
His brother Lt. Col, Sir Philip Lee Brocklehurst Bt, (1887-1975), Swythamley Park, near Macclesfield until 1975
Thence by descent
Exhibited: On long term loan to West Park Museum, Macclesfield, circa 1939-1976
The items within this lot containing ivory have been registered in accordance with the Ivory Act (section 10). Refs.G1JUCZBW, QL2SGDPG and QNJJ5Y84.
Both brothers were extensive travellers and explorers, Sir Philip having been on Shackleton's 1907 – 1909 Nimrod expedition to the Antarctic and who later travelled through both the Middle and Far East. His brother Courtney, who went with him to the Arctic in 1912 and later became game warden of the Sudan in the 1920s, then went on to travel extensively in China, Japan and Tibet in the 1930s, bringing back the first giant panda from Tibet to the UK.
Many of the artefacts collected on these travels were put on loan at the West Park Museum, which had been built by the Brocklehurst family for safe keeping during the war, and when he was killed in 1942 fighting with the Chindits in Burma, his brother Philip inherited the contents of the museum where they remained until after his death in 1975.
