Some Photographs of Examples of Netsuke, Manju, Inro, Snuff Bottles, Jadeite, Chalcedony, Ivory, Togidashi, Tokusai, Masotomo, Kajikawa, Quianlong, Eggshell Thin and Shibayama From The Cohen Collection.

Tomotada school - An ivory netsuke of a reclining goat, late 18th century. Signed: Tomotada, Kyoto

Ivory netsuke of a reclining goat Signed: Tomotada, Kyoto

Tomotada Ivory Goat Netsuke
An ivory netsuke of a reclining goat with fleecy hair. Japan, late 18th century. Signed: Tomotada, Kyoto. Provenance: Bluth Collection, Sidney Moss. Published: Item 47 'In Search of Netsuke and Inro' by George A. Cohen. A good example of the work produced in Kyoto during the late 18th century. The signature, however, is not that of Tomotada, but that of a close pupil.

Itto wood netsuke - A rare ebony netsuke of a reclining cow, late 18th century. Signed: Itto.

Ebony netsuke of a reclining cow Signed: Itto

Itto wood netsuke
A rare ebony netsuke of a reclining cow. Japan, late 18th century. Signed: Itto. Provenance: D. Frances. Published: Item 211 'In Search of Netsuke and Inro' by George A. Cohen.

A chalcedony well hollowed cameo carved picture snuff bottle with white skin representing a duck, Chinese, 1750-1850. Amethyst stopper.

Chalcedony snuff bottle white inclusion carved as a duck

Chalcedony Cameo White Duck Snuff Bottle
A chalcedony well hollowed cameo carved picture snuff bottle with an amethyst and metal stopper. Chalcedony, pale grey with a creamy opaque white skin, simply carved to represent a duck, its head looking back over its shoulders, its eye simply incised, below the duck the waves cut from the grey material; the bottle of flattened form with raised oval foot rim and concave mouth. Chinese, 1750-1850. Stopper: amethyst on metal collar. Provenance: Joan Wasserman collection. Hugh Moss Ltd, London, 1974. Height: 6.9cm. This is a simple but extremely effective rendition of the much loved duck, the contrast within the grey agate is perfect and the whole work of art completed with a minimum of fuss - a little digging here, a little incising there - showing again that less is more.

Shiomi Masanari in seal form.

Shiomi Masanari in seal form

Shiomi Masanari Seal
Shiomi Masanari in seal form.

A three case togidashi Inro with the seven sages of the bamboo Signed: Shiomi Masanari in seal form and Kajikawa saku in kanji.

Inro seven sages of the bamboo grove Signed: Shiomi Masanari

Togidashi Inro the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, Shiomi Masanari and Kajikawa saku

A three case togidashi Inro, roiro ground, and with nashiji interiors. Decorated with the seven sages of the bamboo grove (Chikurin shichi Kenjin, the Chinese Chuh lin ts'i hien), four of whom appear on the front, and three on the reverse, in a landscape with a bridge over a river with bamboo on the banks. Signed: Shiomi Masanari in seal form and Kajikawa saku in kanji. Provenance: Eskenazi 1981. Dimensions: 8.4cm long x 7cm wide. It is strange to find the signatures of both Kajikawa (Family name) and Shiomi Masanari on the same Inro. The most likely cause is that the work is by one, after the other, although it is unclear whose was the original design.

Three colour Chinese Nephrite Pendant and Seal. Suzhou School. Chinese, 18th Century.

Nephrite seal & pendant Suzhou School

Three Colour Nephrite Pendant and Seal.
Nephrite, white mutton fat with darker olive and russet brown areas, carved with a rabbit towards the foot of the bottle with a kylin at the top near a gnarled tree. The other side with a hunter and bow trying to find a person hiding up by rocks. The foot with a seal which is carved for the Seal of the artist. Suzhou School. Chinese, 18th Century. Attachments: Blue quartz bead, seed pearls and brown cord. Provenance: Richard Marchant 1982. Published: Included on the exhibition poster. Dimensions: 6.4cm high x 3.5cm wide.

White nephrite pendant. Chinese, 1780 - 1850.

White nephrite pendant Chinese, 1780 - 1850

Chinese White Nephrite Pendant.
Nephrite, white mutton fat, carved and pierced through out with an elaborate design of two birds feeding, and a complicated design of leaves and ruyi fungus, with leaves to one side. Chinese, 1780 - 1850. Attachments: Green glass bead, seed pearls and green cord. Provenance: Roger Keverne 1992. Dimensions: 5.8cm high x 4cm wide.

A Japanese Lacquer 'Little Fox' Kobako in the form of two overlapping boxes. Japan, 19th century.

Japanese lacquer Kobako forging the sword 'Little Fox' Unsigned

A Japanese Lacquer Kobako in the form of two overlapping boxes.
One shows the figure of the swordsmith Munechika forging the sword ``Little Fox'' assisted by the Fox spirit in the guise of a woman. The other is covered with a mass of gold and coloured togidashi kiku. The interior tray finely decorated in gold togidashi with a scene of three foxes running in a landscape that has a dream like quality. Japan, 19th century. Dimensions: 12cm x 6.4cm x 3cm. Signed: Unsigned. Provenance: Gaskell Collection, Sotheby's 1975. Published: Item 358 'In Search of Netsuke and Inro' by George A. Cohen.

An 18th century Japanese ivory netsuke of a reclining dog resting on a besom

Ivory netsuke of a reclining dog resting on a besom. Unsigned

An Ivory Netsuke of a reclining dog resting on a besom.
The broom softly etched while the dog is of smooth almost porcelain texture. Japan, 18th century. Unsigned. Provenance: Bluth Collection, Sidney Moss Published: Item 83 'In Search of Netsuke and Inro' by George A. Cohen.

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