152 pages, jacketed hardback, 293 x 216 mm, 145 colour illustrations
PRICE: £60.00
ISBN: 978-0898153514
A comprehensive survey of the major schools and masters in 66 fine examples, this catalogue is an indication of the developing serious interest in netsuke. Several full-colour photographs of each work, taken from every useful angle, accompany educative and entertaining text. This, the first of Sydney L. Moss gallery's consistently high quality "mission to explain" trilogy of hardback netsuke publications (along with Zodiac Beasts and Remarkable Netsuke), features a character glossary, a select bibliography and a map of feudal Japan.
This exhibition and catalogue celebrates the most gifted, inventive and eccentric amateurs of the 18th and early 19th centuries with a selection of drawings, engravings and portraits gathered from Soane's collection and other museums, archives and private houses around the country. More