HAP MOORE ANTIQUES AUCTIONS Auction of Estate Antiques
Netsuke and Other Carved Japanese Objects
Saturday Morning, August 23, 2008 Auction Begins at 10:00 a.m. Netsuke and Carved Japanese Objects Sold at Approximately 11:00 a.m.
Preview Friday, August 22nd from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m., From 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. on the Day of Sale Or by Appointment
Lot Description
608 Bronze sui teki (water dropper) for mixing ink.
609 Mingei pipe case and tobacco box.
610 Signed boxwood monkey Okimono.
611 Japanese bronze pocket sundial, giving time, month and phase of moon.
612 Boxwood tobacco box with ivory ojime with noh masks and 18th c. netsuke of Dutchman.
613 Tobacco box with signed ojime, inlaid stained ivory and bronze, featuring bronze tiger with silver eyes, the piece having early 19th c. netsuke of dog mask.
614 Tobacco box with gold, lacquer, pewter and gilt bronze onlay and Mother of Pearl accents, having a late 18th to early 19th c. frog netsuke with signed brown and gold lacquer ojime.
615 Pipe case, pipe and tobacco box in form of Daruma, having bone ojime.
616 Signed one case inro with inlaid ebony eyes, monkeys en suite.
617 Traveling shrine with Amida Buddha.
618 Unsigned monkey-form tobacco box.
619 Lacquer inro with two-piece Ojime, netsuke of snake attacking bird and shi-shi on a wood bell.
Netsuke and Other Carved Japanese Objects
620 Late 19th c. gold lacquered two case inro with Mother of Pearl inlays with phoenix and ivory Ojime.
621 Signed boxwood guardian figure.
622 Daikoku and Ebisu figures, composition unknown.
623 Collection of three bronze and four wood Noh masks, one signed.
624 Six bone or ivory netsuke and three ivory Ojime.
625 Signed Okimono of turtles with inlaid Himitoshi and inlaid eyes.
626 Four ivory netsuke, including one of monkey and peach and one of boy with movable tongue. Some signed.
627 Six guardian figures, Buddha, partial skeleton and nut beads.
628 Okimono in the form of a monkey with an octopus on his back, a Daikoku figure, a Daruma-form seal netsuke and two wood figures of Daruma.
629 Three ivory netsuke, including one with noh actors with noh masks on their backs and one signed netsuke formed from seven noh masks.
630 Four wood netsuke, including two with ivory inlays and three lacquered, a Noh actor and one in the form of a group of noh masks.
631 Two skeletons with wood bells and a bronze guardian.
632 Two ivory Shishi netsuke (one probably 18th c.), bone toad and three ojime.
633 Three figural ivory netsuke, one signed.
634 Three Manju netsuke, one with silver gilt center, one in the form of a squirrel on a vine and a recumbent Shishi.
635 Oversized ivory Ojime of two tigers and an signed ivory tiger netsuke with painted details.
636 Late 18th c. mushroom-form ivory netsuke with fine patina.
637 Early 19th c. monkey on abalone shell netsuke.
638 Fine signed wood netsuke of cockerel.
639 Signed 18th c. ox netsuke.
Netsuke and Other Carved Japanese Objects
640 Well-carved 19th c. ram netsuke.
641 Two figural ivory Okimono, one signed.
642 Two ivory netsuke of demons, one possibly 18th c
643 Ivory netsuke of a scholar with group of children and a signed ivory Phoenix boat with four scholars.
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