A boxwood netsuke of a wild boar


By Jack Coutu (1924-2017), English, carved in January 1980Seated, facing ahead and with its forelegs bent as it prepares to rise, the wood dark stained and the eye pupils inlaid with dark horn; signed on a silver tablet JC. 5.9cm (2 3/8in). (2).
|ExhibitedContrasting Styles, London, 1980, p.49, no.106.Sold together with Jack Coutu's reference card (no.75), on which he states: 'This is a typically Japanese subject and my knowledge of boars is not great! However, it turned out quite satisfactory from my viewpoint, but was a little larger than I had intended.'