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Circa 1880
 

The elegant bird highly refined with its feathers engraved in great detail is standing, facing ahead and with its wings drawn in for compactness, its beak gilt and its gilt webbed feet drawn in beneath, signed Seii on a gilt tablet.


L. 4.8 cm


Published in: George Lazarnick, Netsuke and Inro Artists and How To Read Their Signatures, vol.II, Reed Publishers, Honolulu, 1981, p.920


Provenance:
- Collection Edward Wrangham, United Kingdom

- Bonham's London, The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art Part II, 10 May 2011, lot 112

- Aalderink Oriental Art, Amsterdam

- Private collection, the Netherlands

A solid silver netsuke of a goose by Seii

5 500,00 €Prix
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