Tomotada school - An ivory netsuke of a reclining goat with fleecy hair. Japan, late 18th century. Signed: Tomotada, Kyoto. Provenance: Bluth Collection, Sidney Moss. Published: Item 47 'In Search of Netsuke and Inro' by George A. Cohen. A good example of the work produced in Kyoto during the late 18th century. The signature, however, is not that of Tomotada, but that of a close pupil.
Ivory netsuke of a reclining goat
Signed: Tomotada, Kyoto		 A chalcedony well hollowed cameo carved picture snuff bottle with an amerthyst and metal stopper. Chalcedony, pale grey with a creamy opaque white skin, simply carved to represent a duck, its head looking back over its shoulders, its eye simply incised, below the duck the waves cut from the grey material; the bottle of flattened form with raised oval foot rim and concave mouth. Chinese, 1750-1850. Stopper: amethyst on metal collar. Provenance: Joan Wasserman collection. Hugh Moss Ltd, London, 1974. Height: 6.9cm. This is a simple but extremely effective rendition of the much loved duck, the contrast within the grey agate is perfect and the whole work of art completed with a minimum of fuss - a little digging here, a little incising there - showing again that less is more.
Chalcedony snuff bottle 
white inclusion carved as a duck		 Itto wood netsuke - A rare ebony netsuke of a reclining cow. Japan, late 18th century. Signed: Itto. Provenance: D. Frances. Published: Item 211 'In Search of Netsuke and Inro' by George A. Cohen.
Ebony netsuke of a reclining cow
Signed: Itto

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Tomotada school - An ivory netsuke of a reclining goat with fleecy hair. Japan, late 18th century.  Signed: Tomotada, Kyoto.  Provenance: Bluth Collection, Sidney Moss.  Published: Item 47 'In Search of Netsuke and Inro' by George A. Cohen.  A good example of the work produced in Kyoto during the late 18th century.  The signature, however, is not that of Tomotada, but that of a close pupil.

A chalcedony well hollowed cameo carved picture snuff bottle with an amethyst and metal stopper.  Chalcedony, pale grey with a creamy opaque white skin, simply carved to represent a duck, its head looking back over its shoulders, its eye simply incised, below the duck the waves cut from the grey material; the bottle of flattened form with raised oval foot rim and concave mouth.  Chinese, 1750-1850.  Stopper: amethyst on metal collar.  Provenance: Joan Wasserman collection. Hugh Moss Ltd, London, 1974.  Height: 6.9cm.  This is a simple but extremely effective rendition of the much loved duck, the contrast within the grey agate is perfect and the whole work of art completed with a minimum of fuss - a little digging here, a little incising there - showing again that less is more.

Itto wood netsuke - A rare ebony netsuke of a reclining cow.  Japan, late 18th century.  Signed: Itto. Provenance: D. Frances.  Published: Item 211 'In Search of Netsuke and Inro' by George A. Cohen.