PAIR OF CARVED HIPPOPOTAMUS TEETH FOR THE JAPANESE MARKET Y
SIGNED SONG SHAN, DATED 1920
£1,250
Auction: 13 September 2017 at 11:00 BST
Description
in the shape of ivory tusks, the first carved with a myriad of turtles of various sizes, the second with frogs, each inscribed with a title, signed Songshan in Xinyi (in Canton), dated gengshen year (1920) (2)
Dimensions
33cm long
Footnote
Provenance:
Private English collection.
Chinese ivory carving for the Japanese market
Song Shan (Matsuyama in Japanese) is a workshop of ivory carvers known to be active in Canton in the 1930s and 1940s. Deeply influenced by the tradition of Canton ivory carving, they mainly worked for the Japanese market and produced a large volume of netsuke and okimono for export.