A wood netsuke of a recumbent goat

Early 19th century

Early 19th century
Inscribed in an oval reserve Hidari Issan.
5.4cm (2 1/8in) wide.

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Provenance:
Aoyama, Paris, 1968.

Published:
Katchen, N7, vol.2, p.193, no.K118.

Lying with its head lowered to the left and its legs drawn in for compactness. The signature is deeply and confidently engraved, but size of the work and the style of carving is rather unlike that recognised as by Hidari Issan of Iwashiro.