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Japan. Edo period (1603-1868). 19th c. Tadatoshi (ca. 1770-1840). Nagoya School. Boxwood, masterfully carved and very finely engraved with meticulously worked details. Crawling on the top of her snail shell, the two long antennae stretched out and laid flat on the shell. The tail of the snail on the other side, forming natural himotoshi. The netsuke shows a very lively, naturalistic representation of a life-size snail. Likewise, the details are faithfully reproduced, such as the small breathing hole of the mollusc at the entrance to the snail shell. An overly naturalistic representation and nevertheless compact form of the netsuke are outstanding characteristics of the Nagoya School to which also Tadatoshi belongs. The net-like, finely engraved structure of the snail's body can often be seen in Tadatoshi's works. The carver very elaborately made the cord runner (natural himotoshi) under the body of the snail. Width 3.9cm. Sign.: Tadatoshi, in ukibori on a raised rectangular reserve. Condition A/B. Supplement: Kiribako. Provenance: -Dutch private collection. Compare: -Coullery, Marie-Thérèse/Newstead, Martin S.: The Baur Collection. Netsuke. Geneva 1977. P. 298-9, see C892 und C893. -Goodall, Hollis (et al.): The Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection of Netsuke. A Lecacy at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles 2003. P. 308, no. 406. -Ueda, Reikichi/Bushell, Raymond: The Netsuke Handbook of Ueda Reikichi. Rutland/Tokyo 1979. P. 132, fig. 121.