3rd May, 2024 13:00
Fine Netsuke & Sagemono
240
Ɏ SERGEY OSIPOV: THE WATCHFUL OWL
Sold for €3,120
including Buyer's Premium
By Sergey Osipov (b. 1968), signed with the artist’s mark
Russia, c. 2005-2006
Amusingly carved and stained from Crimean juniper with an owl nestled within a hollow, its large alert eyes double inlaid with amber and horn, and the beak carved from honey horn. One side of the tree stump carved with mushrooms fashioned out of tagua nut, a crevice in the bark further detailed with a spider in African warthog tusk inlaid with a mother-of-pearl spider spinning its web. Generously excavated himotoshi to the back and signed on a sliver of amber with the artist’s signature.
With an ojime carved from tagua nut in the form of a mouse scaling a mushroom, the eyes of the rodent inlaid in jet stone.
HEIGHT 5.1 cm
Condition: Excellent condition.
Provenance: Collection Gabor Orszagh, Budapest, Hungary, acquired from a private collection in the UK.
Sergey Osipov (b. 1968) was born in 1968 into the family of a Soviet army officer. Due to his father's occupation, he traveled the former Soviet Union back and forth. Nature left a deep imprint on his heart and still greatly influences his work. From 1985 he worked as a forest ranger, later deciding to study Forest Management at the Agrarian Academy, and eventually continuing his work in forestry as a forest engineer. In 1991, he decided to switch fields and work as an artist and later as a designer, carving netsuke from 1994. A significant part of his work is in the netsuke collection of HIH Princess Takamado.
By Sergey Osipov (b. 1968), signed with the artist’s mark
Russia, c. 2005-2006
Amusingly carved and stained from Crimean juniper with an owl nestled within a hollow, its large alert eyes double inlaid with amber and horn, and the beak carved from honey horn. One side of the tree stump carved with mushrooms fashioned out of tagua nut, a crevice in the bark further detailed with a spider in African warthog tusk inlaid with a mother-of-pearl spider spinning its web. Generously excavated himotoshi to the back and signed on a sliver of amber with the artist’s signature.
With an ojime carved from tagua nut in the form of a mouse scaling a mushroom, the eyes of the rodent inlaid in jet stone.
HEIGHT 5.1 cm
Condition: Excellent condition.
Provenance: Collection Gabor Orszagh, Budapest, Hungary, acquired from a private collection in the UK.
Sergey Osipov (b. 1968) was born in 1968 into the family of a Soviet army officer. Due to his father's occupation, he traveled the former Soviet Union back and forth. Nature left a deep imprint on his heart and still greatly influences his work. From 1985 he worked as a forest ranger, later deciding to study Forest Management at the Agrarian Academy, and eventually continuing his work in forestry as a forest engineer. In 1991, he decided to switch fields and work as an artist and later as a designer, carving netsuke from 1994. A significant part of his work is in the netsuke collection of HIH Princess Takamado.
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