A kurogaki (black persimmon) wood sashi netsuke of a snail on a lotus leafBy Yusui, probably Iwami Province, 19th century
The snail slithering diagonally over the long folded leaf attached to a long stalk, another stalk next to the leaf terminating in a lotus bud forming the himotoshi; signed Sugiura-shi no motome ni ojite Senjian Yusui tsukuru (made to Mr Sugiura's order by Senjian Yusui) with a kao. 14.5cm (5¾in).注脚黒柿彫差し根付　蓮の葉に蝸牛　銘 「応杉浦氏需洗耳菴有水造（花押）」　19世紀

Provenance:
Sold at Sotheby's, London, 2 November 1964, lot 98.
Robert de Belder Collection.

Published:
Lazarnick, NIA, p.1257.
Rokusho 20, p.70, no.101.
Earle, Huthart, p.349, no.324.
Burditt, ICLS, p.41, fig.12.