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With somewhat languid expression, its snout pointing skyward
Signed beneath. Nagoya. Circa 1850
Length: 4.9 cm
Private collection, Germany
Fuld lists 84 netsuke by this excellent carver, only 4 of them boars. 1 is in the Museo d’arte Orientale, Genova, another is illustrated in Bushell’s The Wonderful World of Netsuke, pl. 13, and another in Cohen’s In Search of Netsuke and Inro, pl. XV, no. 241. The illustration of the last is poor, but it may be the present netsuke
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