A large boar-tusk netsuke


By Jack Coutu (1924-2017), English, carved in August 1984Carved in low relief with a heron stalking a frog, the eyes inlaid with dark horn and the broad end plugged with ebony; signed on a silver tablet JC. 12.7cm (5in) long. (2).
|Sold together with Jack Coutu's reference card (no.103), on which he states: 'This was a rather tricky composition to fit into a boar's tusk but it worked better than I expected. Designing in the shape always makes it rather contrived but an interesting problem to overcome!'