Japanese Works of Art - 23 Nov 2021
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AN UNUSUAL JAPANESE WOOD AND CORAL NETSUKE
AN UNUSUAL JAPANESE WOOD AND CORAL NETSUKE
EDO PERIOD, 18TH OR 19TH CENTURY
Naturalistically modelled as the severed tentacle of an octopus, the carving in dark wood, possibly ebony, the tentacle with realistic suckers to the side and the end entwined around a small branch of coral, 5.5cm.
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