A boar-tusk netsuke


By Jack Coutu (1924-2017), English, carved January 1993Carved in low relief with a silk moth clambering over a coccoon, the ground partially stippled, the eyes inlaid in horn, the broad end plugged with boxwood; signed on a silver tablet JC. 11.1cm (4 3/8in) long. (2).
|Sold together with Jack Coutu's reference card (no.224), on which he states: 'This one worked reasonably well but I feel it is a little dull and un-inspired. The moth might have been a better shape. Perhaps a tusk was not the best setting for it, the colour is quite pleasant.'