This specialist for dense compositions of animal groups offers a light-hearted subject here – eight chubby puppies frolicking around and on top of an elephant, two lying under it. A second, smaller elephant is lying beside the larger one. The details are very amusing, such as the dopey face of the puppy lying underneath the elephant, another puppy biting the pachyderm’s tail, or another tucked underneath the trunk and biting its lower jaw. The ivory is stained bearing a very good color and all of the eyes are inlaid in dark horn. A very lively, dense composition on a base in the shape of a rock with himotoshi and signature MASAMITSU on the underside.

Category:

Netsuke

Subcategory:

-

Subject:

Animal

Material:

Ivory

Age/Country:

19th Century

Artist:

Masamitsu

Provenance/Owner:

Galerie Zacke

Signed:

signed

Type:

Katabori

Height:

35mm mm

Width:

57mm mm

Depth:

mm

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