A wood netsuke of two dolphins


By Michael Webb (1934-2011), Yorkshire, England, 1988Signed with ukibori characters, MJW Cropton, May, 1988. 5.4cm (2 1/8in) wide.
|木彫根付　海豚　銘「MJW Cropton, May, 1988」　1988年Swimming side by side as they leap, their tails overlapping and their eyes inlaid. A similar group of dolphins was exhibited in an exhibition of Michael Webb's work at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England, in 1983, illustrated in the catalogue, no.8, and illustrated in Lazarnick, NIA, p.1212.A netsuke of two sharks in a similar attitude by Michael Webb, from the Katchen collection, was sold in these rooms, 10 May 2017, lot 166.