Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
Photo: Max Vakhtbovych
Beasley, a British businessman who died before World War II, the most costly netsuke was a wood carving of a kirin, a mythological creature - part dragon, horse and lion - that brought $33,000.
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Read More »But how were these miniature carvings used? The answer is made graphically clear in a wood, leather and metal shop sign for an 18th- or early 19th-century netsuke maker, the first display vistors see. The sign incorporates a carved-wood button- shaped netsuke, five times its normal size. From this outsized disc is suspended a cord, holding a tobacco pouch and pipe holder, one of many containers the Japanese wore secured in place by netsuke. These carryalls, which were attached to the sash of the kimono, included tobacco pouches and boxes (tabako-ire), purses (kinchaku), medicine or seal cases (inro) and writing kits (yatate), examples of which are shown and identified. The Peabody's netsuke collection is admirable both as a comprehensive assemblage of 17th- through 19th- century examples, and as a collection that includes virtually every material and subject known in the history of this craft. Knowledgeable collectors will have seen finer examples in most categories elsewhere, but they will find much to admire here in the variety of subjects and the deftness of the renderings in so many materials - wood, ivory, metal, soapstone, bone, coral, horn and glass. Whatever this show lacks in masterpieces, it makes up for in clarity of presentation. The design of the exhibition takes its cue from the splendid and articulate catalogue written by Lisa A. Edwards and Margie M. Krebs, published by the Peabody ($18.95), a book new collectors will applaud. But the project is rooted in a visit made to the Salem museum by Miss Edwards in 1969 when she was a high-school student. After viewing the netsuke, she had questions which were not answered on the labels. So she made further inquiries of the museum's shop manager who jokingly suggested Miss Edwards write a catalogue of the collection. Miss Edwards heeded her words and returned in 1972, to do just that. The results in this presentation and in the catalogue show how successful she and her colleague were. Netsuke collecting, which attracted its share of investors in the late 1970's, is quieter now, according to Bernard Hurtig, a Honolulu dealer. Mr. Hurtig divides admirers of netsuke into two basic categories - those who buy the netsuke sold in souvenir shops - ''there are hundreds of thousands'' - and people who take these Lilliputian carvings more seriously. He said that there are thousands of people prepared to pay $1,000 to $50,000 for netsuke, 200 to 300 who will spend $5,000 to $25,000 and perhaps 50 people who will acquire netsukes for $50,000 or more. Mr. Hurtig said that the finest netsuke rarely appear these days at auction, adding that the highest price known to have been paid anywhere for one of these fasteners was $250,000, the price he said was paid to him by an American collector whom he did not identify. This sale in January 1983 was of an 18th-century ivory carving of a diving girl embraced by a squid. Two other 18th-century netsuke - a horse by Masanoa of Kyoto, and a holy man holding a basket of frogs - were sold recently for a total of $400,00 by Giuseppe Eskenazi, a London dealer, to a collector who was not identified.
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