[PRIVATE SCOTTISH COLLECTION, RENFREWSHIRE] JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE OF A FIGURE WITH MINOGAME
BY SHOGUNOYA SHOKO, 19TH CENTURY
Estimate: £300 - £500
Auction: 16 May 2025 from 09:00 BST
Description
十九世紀 尚古款 木彫人物與蓑亀根付
finely carved with a seated figure holding a bowl in his left hand over to his right shoulder, clutching a double gourd in his right hand, a mythological turtle on his right shoulder drinking from the bowl, the base carved with a two-character mark ‘Shoko’
Dimensions
4.1cm high
Provenance
Private Scottish collection, Renfrewshire
Footnote
Two wood netsukes by Sugunoya Shoko, 19th century, one carved with an ama and an octopus, sold at Bonhams Paris, 14 June 2023, lot 29; the other an oni, sold at Bonhams London, 14 May 2015, part lot 25.