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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 12, 2016 | Bonhams | London | Fine Japanese Art | 264 | $****** - ****** | A large collection of Japanese Art reference books on netsuke, inro and others |
Works on Paper
book
Including the following: Arakawa, Hirokazu, ed., Netsuke: Takumi to share [Netsuke: Skills and Trends], Kyoto, Tankosha, 1995; Arakawa, Hirokazu, ed., Nihon no bijutsu, No.195 (August 1982), Inro and Netsuke, Tokyo, Shibundo, 1982; Ashmolean Museum, Inro: an Exhibition of Japanese Inro from the Collection of E. A. Wrangham, Oxford, 1972; Asnaghi, Bruno, Il Netsuke: Arte figurativa dell'antico Giappone [Netsuke: Figurative Art of Ancient Japan], Turin, Umberto Allemandi & C., 1990; Asseretto, Maria Luisa, Frabetti, Gioliano, Vantaggi, Adriano, Accessori nell'abbigliamento giapponese: Inro, Netsuke e altri Sagemono, Genoa, Museo d'Arte Orientale E. Chiossone, 1985; Atchley, Virginia G., Goodall, Hollis, Izzard, Sebastian, The Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection of Netsuke: A Legacy at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Chicago & Los Angeles, Art Media Resources, 2003; Barbanson, Adrienne, Fables in Ivory: Japanese Netsuke and Their Legends, Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1961 (first edition); Barker, Richard, Smith, Lawrence, Netsuke: The Miniature Sculpture of Japan, London, British Museum Publications, 1976; Bilang, Karla, Japanische Netsuke [Japanese Netsuke], Leipzig, Insel-Verlag Anton Kippenberg, 1980; Boeykens, Lutgarde, Nauts, Herman, Grootmeesters van de Japanse Kunst, Sint-Niklaas, Netherlands, Stedelijk Museum, 1978; British Museum & Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Treasured Miniatures: Contemporary Netsuke, Tokyo, Ribun Shuppan, 1994; Brockhous, Albert, Netsukes, trans. M. F. Watty, New York, Duffield & Company, 1924 (first edition); Bunke, H. G., Netsuke: Japanische Kleinplastik, Ein Brevier [Netsuke: Japanese miniature sculptures, a guide], Braunschweig, Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1959; Bushell, Frances, Takarabukuro [Treasure Bag]: a Netsuke Artist's Notebook, by Mitsuhiro Ohara, trans. Misao Mikoshiba, Chicago, Art Media Resources, 2001 (first edition); Bushell, Raymond, Netsuke Masks, New York & Tokyo, Weatherhill, 1995 (first published 1985); Bushell, Raymond, Masterpieces of Netsuke Art: One Thousand Favorites of Leading Collectors, New York & Tokyo, Weatherhill, 1973 (first edition); Bushell, Raymond, Netsuke shirarezaru Nihon no bijutsu - Raymond Bushell Collection [Netsuke: the Unknown Art of Japan - Raymond Bushell Collection], Tokyo, Mikimoto, 1979; Bushell, Raymond, The Netsuke Handbook of Ueda Reikichi, Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1974 (first published 1961); Bushell, Raymond, The Inro Handbook: Studies of Netsuke, Inro and Lacquer, New York & Tokyo, Weatherhill, 1979 (first edition); Bushell, Raymond, Collectors' Netsuke, New York & Tokyo, Weatherhill, 1974 (first published 1971); Bushell, Raymond, Netsuke: Familiar & Unfamiliar, New Principles for Collecting, New York & Tokyo, Weatherhill, 1975 (first edition); Bushell, Raymond, An Introduction to Netsuke, Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1971 (first edition); Bushell, Raymond, The Wonderful World of Netsuke, Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1964 (first edition); Bushell, Raymond, The Wonderful World of Netsuke, Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1982 (first published 1964); Bushell, Raymond, The Wonderful World of Netsuke, Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1995 (first published 1964); Bushell, Raymond, The Art of Netsuke Carving, [as told] by Masatoshi, New York & Tokyo, Weatherhill, 1992 (first published 1981); Chignoli, Patrizia, Netsuke: Collezione Tamanini, La Galliavola, Milan, Novara, Interlinea, 1996; Christie's London, 100 Raymond Bushell Netsuke on Exhibition, 21-27 October, London International Netsuke Convention, Christie, Manson & Woods, 1984; Cohen, George, In Search of Netsuke & Inro, Birmingham, Jacey Group, 1974; Coullery, Marie-Thérèse, Newstead, Martin S., The Baur Collection - Geneva: Netsuke (Selected Pieces), Geneva, Baur Collection, 1977 (first edition); Ducros, Alain, Netsuke & Sagemono, Granges-les-Valence, Takaramono, 1978 (limited edition of 500); Ducros, Alain, Netsuke & Sagemono 2, Granges-les-Valence, Alain Ducros, 1987 (limited edition of 2000 and numbered, no.20 of 50); Earle, Joe, An Introduction to Netsuke, London, Victoria & Albert Museum, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1982 (second edition, first published 1980); Edwards, Lisa A., Krebs, Margie M., Netsuke: The Collection of the Peabody Museum of Salem, Salem, Massachusetts, Peabody Museum, 1980; Eijer, Dieuwke, Kagamibuta: Mirrors of Japanese Life and Legend, Geneva & Leiden, The Baur Collection & Heinz Kaempfer Fund, 1994 (first edition); Forman, Werner, Japanese Netsuke, trans. Iris Urwin, London, Spring Books, 1960 (2 copies); Gabbert Avitabile, Gunhild, Japonica aus der Kunstsammlung des Herrn Wilhelm Peter Metzler [Japanese Art from the Collection of Mr Wilhelm Peter Metzler], Frankfurt am Main, Museum für Kunsthandwerk, 1983; Gorham, Hazel, Japanese Netsuké, Yokohama, Yamagata, 1957; Gould, Irving, The Gould Collection of Netsuke, New York, Michael B. Glass & Associates, 1987 (limited edition); Harris, Victor, Netsuke: The Hull Grundy Collection in the British Museum, London, British Museum Publications, 1987 (first edition); His Imperial Highness Prince Norihito Takamado, Contemporary Netsuke, The H.I.H. Prince Takamado Collection, Tokyo, Hakuchosha, 2003 (Revised and Expanded Edition);
Holmberg, Petra, Netsuke, Stockholm, Sweden, Östasiatiska Museet, 1999; Hutt, Julia, Japanese Netsuke, London, V&A Publications, 2003 (first edition); Hutt, Julia, Japanese Inro, London, V&A Publications, 1997 (first edition); Impey, Oliver R., Japanese Netsuke in Oxford, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 1993 (first published 1987); Jahss, Melvin and Betty, Inro and Other Miniature Forms of Japanese Lacquer Art, Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1971 (first edition); Jirka-Schmitz, Patrizia, Netsuke: 112 Meisterwerke - Masterpieces: The Trumpf Collection, vol.1, Linden-Museum, Stuttgart, Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2000; Jirka-Schmitz, Patrizia, Netsuke: Gürtelschmuck aus Japan: Die Sammlung Trumpf [Belt Ornaments from Japan: The Trumpf Collection], vol.2, Linden-Museum, Stuttgart, Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2000; Jirka-Schmitz, Patrizia, Netsuke: Japanischer Gürtelschmuck des 18. bis 20. Jahrhunderts aus einer westdeutschen Privatsammlung [Netsuke: 18th- 20th-century Japanese Belt Ornaments from a West German Private Collection], Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, 1994; Jonas, F. M., Netsuké, Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1960 (first published 1928); Jonas, F. M., Netsuké, Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1973 (first published 1928); Kinsey, Robert & Miriam, Contemporary Netsuke: Miniature Sculpture from Japan and Beyond, Santa Ana, California, The Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, 1997 (first edition); Kinsey, Robert O., The Poetry of Netsuke, Santa Barbara, California, Perpetua Press, 2004 (first edition, dedicated by the author); Kinsey, Robert O., Ojime: Magical Jewels of Japan, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1991; Klefisch, Trudel, Ducros, Alain, Netsuke, Inro und andere Sagemono [Netsuke, Inro and Other Sagemono], Cologne, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, 1982; Kokusai Netsuke Chokokukai, Tenohira no shouchu, gendai netsuke chokokuten [A Small Universe in the Palm of the Hand, Exhibition of Contemporary Netsuke Carvings], Yokohama, Takashimaya Art Department, 2002; Kress, Else, Meeting Once More: Inro and Their Design Drawings, Leiden, Heinz Kaempfer Fund, 1999 (first edition); Kurstin, Joseph, Netsuke: Story Carvings of Old Japan, Epcot Center, Walt Disney World Resort, Orlando, Joseph Kurstin, 1994 (hardback); Kurstin, Joseph, Netsuke: Story Carvings of Old Japan, Epcot Center, Walt Disney World Resort, Orlando, Joseph Kurstin, 1994 (paperback); Kurstin, Joseph, Ortega, Maria L., Masterworks of Netsuke and Other Japanese Miniature Art from American Collections, University of Miami, Florida, Lowe Art Museum, 1986; Kußmaul, Friedrich, Christian Trumpf: Sammler und Mäzen [Christian Trumpf: Collector and Patron], Stuttgart, Linden-Museum, 1972; Mateu, Guillermo, Netsuke: Las Grandes Miniaturas de la Escultura Japonesa, Barcelona, Gal Art, 1998 (first edition); Matsuo, Tomoko, ed., Contemporary Netsuke: The Kinsey Collection, Chiba, Chiba City Museum, 2001; Meech, Julia, Lacquerware from the Weston Collection, New York, Christie's Inc., 1995; Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Japanese Netsuké, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1937; Japanse Kunst uit particulier bezit [Japanese Art from Private Collections], Rotterdam, Museum voor Land- en Volkenkunde, 1965; Noetzel, Otto Heinrich, Netsuke: Ihre Geschichte, ihre Meister, ihre Motive [Their History, Their Masters, Their Motifs], Wilhelmshaven, Heinrichshofen, 1974 (limited edition, no.300/200); Noetzel, Otto Heinrich, Netsuke: Geschichte, Meister, Motive [History, Masters, Motifs], Wilhelmshaven, Heinrichshofen, 1981 (first edition); Noetzel, Otto Heinrich, Netsuke: Geschichte, Meister, Motive [History, Masters, Motifs], Wilhelmshaven, Heinrichshofen, 2001 (second edition, first published 1981); Noetzel, Otto Heinrich, Yakimono Netsuke: Netsuke aus Porzellan und Ton [Porcelain and Clay Netsuke], Wilhelmshaven, Heinrichshofen, 1985 (first edition); O'Brien, Mary Louise, Netsuke: A Guide for Collectors, Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1973 (first published 1965); O'Brien, Mary Louise, Foulds, Martin, Link, Howard A., The Art of Shibata Zeshin: The Mr and Mrs James E. O'Brien Collection at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii, Robert G. Sawers Publishing, 1979 (first edition); Okada, Barbra Teri, Netsuke: Masterpieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1982 (first edition); Okada, Barbra Teri, Japanese Netsuke and Ojime from the Herman and Paul Jaehne Collection of the Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, The Newark Museum, 1976 (first edition, limited edition no.435 of 500, signed by the author), and a paperback duplicate published as the Winter/Spring issue of The Newark Museum Quarterly; Okada, Barbra Teri, Garner Neill, Mary, Real and Imaginary Beings: The Netsuke Collection of Joseph and Edith Kurstin, New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Art Gallery, 1980; Okada, Yuzuru, Netsuke: A Miniature Art of Japan, Tourist Library vol.14, Tokyo, Japan Travel Bureau, July 1951 (first edition); Okada, Yuzuru, Netsuke: A Miniature Art of Japan, Tourist Library vol.14, Tokyo, Japan Travel Bureau, November 1954 (third edition, first published July 1951); Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Casal Collection: Netsuke, Osaka, Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, 1982; Putney, Carolyn M., Japanese Treasures: The Art of Netsuke Carving in the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, The Toledo Museum of Art, 2000; Roosevelt, C. V. S., Netsuke: A Bibliography, Washington D.C., privately printed, 1973; Roosevelt, C. V. S., Netsuke: A Bibliography, Washington D.C., privately printed, 1978 (limited edition no. 131 of 300); Roth, Stig, Netsuke ur Samling Salomon Sörensen [Netsuke from the Collection of Salomon Sörensen], Gothenburg, Sweden, 1933 (limited edition, no.233); Roth, Stig, Netsuke, Gothenburg, Sweden, The Röhss Museum of Arts and Crafts, 1970; Ryerson, Egerton, The Netsuke of Japan: Legends, History, Folklore and Customs, New York, Castle Books, 1958 (first edition); Sandfield, Norman L., The Ultimate Netsuke Bibliography: An Annotated Guide to Miniature Japanese Carvings, Chicago, Art Media Resources & Norman L. Sandfield, 1999 (first edition); Sandfield, Norman L., Additions and Revisions to The Ultimate Netsuke Bibliography, International Netsuke Society Convention, Boston, Norman L. Sandfield, 2001; Schwarz, Karl M., Netsuke Subjects, trans. Karl M. Schwarz and Donald Brooks, Vienna, Cologne & Weimar, Böhlau Verlag, 1992; Schwarz, Karl M., Netsuke Subjects Addendum, trans. Karl M. Schwarz and Rebecca Law, Graz, Akademische Druck-u. Verlangsanstalt, 2001; Stern, Harold P., The Magnificent Three: Lacquer, Netsuke, and Tsuba: Selections from the Collection of Charles A. Greenfield, New York, Japan Society, 1972; Symmes, Edwin C., Jr., Netsuke: Japanese Life and Legend in Miniature, Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1991 (first edition); The London Netsuke Committee, Contrasting Styles, Quaglino's, London, Robert G. Sawers, 1980; The Seikado Bunko Art Museum, The Playful Designs of the Edo Period: The First Exhibition of Inro and Netsuke from the Seikado Collection, Tokyo, The Seikado Bunko Art Museum, 2000; Tollner, Madeline R., Netsuke: The Life and Legend of Japan in Miniature, San Francisco, The Abbey Press, 1954 (first edition); Tollner, Madeline R., Netsuke: The Life and Legend of Japan in Miniature, San Francisco, The Abbey Press, 1960 (first published 1954); Toyama Sato Museum, Netsuke chokoku Edo no oshare tokubetsuten [Netsuke Carvings: Fashionable Ornaments in Edo, Special Exhibition], Toyama, Sato Art Museum, 1998; Uspensky, Mikhail Vladimirovitch, Netske v Sobranii Gosudarstvennego Ermitazha [Netsuke from the Hermitage Collection], St. Petersburg, Slavia Art Books, 1994; Welch, Matthew, Chappell, Sharen, Netsuke: The Japanese Art of Miniature Carving, Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1999; Whitlock, Herbert P., The Netsuke of Japan, New York, The American Museum of Natural History, 1935; Wolf, Richard, Netsuke: Legenden in Elfenbein von Richard Wolf [Netsuke: Legends in Ivory from Richard Wolf], Erbach im Odenwald, Germany, A. Müller, 1968; Wylie, Hugh, The Gould Collection of Netsuke: Miniature Sculptures from Japan, Ontario, Royal Ontario Museum, 1988; Yanagi, Reiko, ed., Edo no iki, inro, netsuke: Inro Museum - A Photograpic Record of Exhibits, Takayama, Inro Museum, 1990; Yanagi, Reiko, ed., Inro & Netsuke, Takayama, Inro Museum, 1990; a broken run of 7 contemporary netsuke exhibition catalogues (1972-1989), featuring artists Komada Ryushi, Sekizawa Hodo, Inada Ichiro and others, supported by Sunamoto Co. Ltd. (1972, 1974, 1976 (2 copies), 1978, 1981, 1989); Rokusho, No.20, Iwami Netsuke from the R. S. Huthart Collection, Tokyo, Maria Shobo, 1996; Rokusho, No.27, Netsuke, Tokyo, Maria Shobo, 1998. (a lot).
