A boxwood netsuke

Unsigned, 19th century
Height: 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm.)

A boxwood carving of the Chinese God of Wealth Liu Hai, one foot resting on his three-legged toad, holding a string of cash wrapled around his back over his shoulder, one coin carved loosely. The Chinese carving adapted to work as a netsuke with an himotoshi on the middle of the back.

Provenance:
Raymond and Frances Bushell
Brigette Horstmann Johnston

Published: Raymond Bushell, Netsuke Familiar & Unfamiliar: New Principles for Collecting (1975), cat. no. 5.

Condition: Chip to the base beneath the toad.

Ref. 1015486

US$1,200