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A FINE WOOD NETSUKE OF HOTEI SEATED ON AN OXEdo period (1615-1868), 18th century The ox standing with its feet together and head down, Hotei seated on the animal's back dressed in loose robes and holding the lead in his right hand and a fan in his left, the details finely incised 3 1/8in (7.9cm) highFootnotesProvenance W. L. Behrens Collection W. Guest Collection Mrs. Isobel Sharpe Collection M. T. Hindson Collection Martin S. Newstead Collection Published Henri Joly, Catalogue of the W. L. Behrens Collection, London, Glendining and Company Ltd., 1922, no. 4570, pl. LXV Neil K. Davey, Netsuke: A Comprehensive Study Based on the M. T. Hindson Collection, London, Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications, 1974, p.389, no.1165 Bernard Hurtig, Masterpieces of Netsuke Art: One Thousand Favorites of Leading Collectors, New York, 1973, p. 153, pl. 621 Matthew Welch and Sharen Chappell, Netsuke, the Art of Miniature Carving, Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1999, p.53, no.57 Joe Earle, Netsuke: Fantasy and Reality in Japanese Miniature Sculpture, Boston, MFA Publications, 2001 p.156, no.121 International Netsuke Society Journal, vol.27, no.1, p.37 International Netsuke Society Journal, vol.40, no.4, p.24, fig.12 Exhibited Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, September 2001-November 2002 Minneapolis Institute of Arts, April 4-July 5, 1998 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, August 21 to October 24, 1999