A large boar-tusk netsuke


By Jack Coutu (1924-2017), English, carved in November 1988Carved in low relief with a young bird on a branch, with silver inlaid blossom and the one visible eye inlaid with dark horn, an ebony plug at the broad end; signed on a silver tablet JC. 12.8cm (5in) long. (2).
|Sold together with Jack Coutu's reference card (no.152), on which he states: 'This tusk had a light crack along the bottom edge which suggested the composition. The plum blossom was inlaid in silver.'