A small boar-tusk netsuke with a crab and ferns
By Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), Iwami Province, late 18th/early 19th centuryThe tusk carved in low relief with a small crab, its legs and claws undercut, the ferns carved in delicate kebori; signed Iwami-no-kuni Enokawa Seiyo Tomiharu kore o chokoku mono nari (carved by the Eno River in Iwami Province by Seiyo Tomiharu). 8.2cm (3?in).
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猪牙彫根付 蟹に羊歯 銘 「石見国可愛河青陽富春彫刻之者也」 18世紀後期/19世紀前期Published:Earle, Huthart, p.35, no.15.