A boar-tusk netsuke


By Jack Coutu (1924-2017), English, carved in January 1995Carved in low relief with the ghost of a woman rising from a vapour cloud, her eyes inlaid with mother-of-pearl and the broad end plugged with boxwood; signed on a silver tablet JC. 12.4cm (4 7/8in). (2).
|Sold together with Jack Coutu's reference card (no.245), on which he states: 'The end with the plug indicated decay. The eyes are mother-of-pearl. I rather liked the "blank" look but did consider giving the eyes pupils. I did some drawings a year or two before but could not see my way to completing it.'