The Dutchman is wearing an allonge wig and a large hat with tassels. He is holding a cockerel with beautiful tail feathers visible on the back. Very dense and precisely carved patterns on the garment, small buttons inset with black horn on the reverse. Dutchmen were only known to netsuke artists from the woodblock prints from Nagasaki and were the only Europeans allowed in Japan, after the Portuguese were expelled in 1638.

Category:

Netsuke

Subcategory:

-

Subject:

Figural

Material:

Marine ivory

Age/Country:

18th Century

Artist:

-

Provenance/Owner:

-

Signed:

unsigned

Type:

Tall figural

Height:

72mm mm

Width:

mm

Depth:

mm

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