4th Nov, 2022 17:00
Fine Netsuke & Sagemono
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NICK LAMB: A STAINED BOXWOOD ‘TIGER AND DRAGON’ NETSUKE
Sold for €3,120
including Buyer's Premium
By Nick Lamb (born 1948), signed with the artist’s mark
USA, late 20th century
Finely carved and stained as a dragon emerging from a soft and fluffy cloud that wraps around the tiger’s paws, the two-horned dragon with a puzzled expression and bulging eyes, below a tiger licking the cloud, its fur neatly incised and painted with stripes. Natural himotoshi and signed with the artist’s mark on a gold, lozenge-shaped reserve. The eyes and horn of the dragon inlaid in mammoth tusk.
HEIGHT 8.4 cm
Condition: Excellent condition, minor wear.
Provenance: Collection Gabor Orszagh, Budapest, Hungary.
Nick Lamb is one of only a few non-Japanese netsuke carvers. Over the past three decades, he has built a reputation as being among the finest living practitioners of the art form and is known for his meticulous, graceful carvings, typically of animals. His work was exhibited in several museums, such as the British Museum and became part of many private collections, including that of the Imperial Family of Japan, the Robin Lehman Collection, the Robert O. Kinsey Collection, and the Tokyo National Museum.
Literature comparison:
Compare a related horn netsuke of a cat by Nick Lamb, in Contemporary Netsuke, Selected Ojime & Related Arts 1993, p. 18, no. 51. Compare a related boxwood netsuke of a tiger illustrated in the International Netsuke Society Journal (INSJ), 1999, vol. 19, no. 4, p. 30. Compare a related boxwood netsuke of a dragon illustrated in the International Netsuke Society Journal (INSJ), 1999, vol. 19, no. 4, p. 31.
By Nick Lamb (born 1948), signed with the artist’s mark
USA, late 20th century
Finely carved and stained as a dragon emerging from a soft and fluffy cloud that wraps around the tiger’s paws, the two-horned dragon with a puzzled expression and bulging eyes, below a tiger licking the cloud, its fur neatly incised and painted with stripes. Natural himotoshi and signed with the artist’s mark on a gold, lozenge-shaped reserve. The eyes and horn of the dragon inlaid in mammoth tusk.
HEIGHT 8.4 cm
Condition: Excellent condition, minor wear.
Provenance: Collection Gabor Orszagh, Budapest, Hungary.
Nick Lamb is one of only a few non-Japanese netsuke carvers. Over the past three decades, he has built a reputation as being among the finest living practitioners of the art form and is known for his meticulous, graceful carvings, typically of animals. His work was exhibited in several museums, such as the British Museum and became part of many private collections, including that of the Imperial Family of Japan, the Robin Lehman Collection, the Robert O. Kinsey Collection, and the Tokyo National Museum.
Literature comparison:
Compare a related horn netsuke of a cat by Nick Lamb, in Contemporary Netsuke, Selected Ojime & Related Arts 1993, p. 18, no. 51. Compare a related boxwood netsuke of a tiger illustrated in the International Netsuke Society Journal (INSJ), 1999, vol. 19, no. 4, p. 30. Compare a related boxwood netsuke of a dragon illustrated in the International Netsuke Society Journal (INSJ), 1999, vol. 19, no. 4, p. 31.
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