LOT 118 By Horaku, Kyoto, 19th century A wood netsuke of a bat with young
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A wood netsuke of a bat with young
By Horaku, Kyoto, 19th centurySigned in a sunken oval reserve Horaku. 3.8cm (1½in) wide.
|木彫根付 親子蝙蝠 銘「宝楽」 19世紀Provenance: Purchased at Hotel Drouot, Paris, 1965.Published: Katchen, N7, vol.1, p.93, no.K474.The adult trying to protect two of its struggling offspring with one outstretched wing, the dark wood slightly worn and the small eyes inlaid.Horaku produced a number of netsuke of bats, either singly, resting on roof tiles or with one of its young, although this appears to be the only recorded example showing two offspring.
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