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September 26, 2016 | 5:50pm - | |||||
The National Arts Club | |||||
15 Gramercy Park South | |||||
Sculpture Court | |||||
New York, NY | |||||
10003 | |||||
Netsuke – Japanese toggles – have been actively collected in Europe since the early 19th century and in the US since after Commodore Perry forced Japan to open its borders to the Western trade in 1853. The early European collections were rather small in scale, but as the number of Westerners traveling to and in Japan steadily grew after 1860, so did the number of netsuke in Western collections. To people with a less sophisticated eye, simple but original pieces were sold, as well as pieces that were created Today, collectors, appraisers and dealers have to deal with this variety of pieces, all called ‘netsuke’. This lecture will place the netsuke in their historical context, look at the di erent forms, qualities and purposes of netsuke and discuss how the future of collecting netsuke might be impacted by the ban on ivory sales. Dieuwke Eijer has been an independent researcher of Japanese traditional art, From 1995 she worked as head of the Asian Art department of the auction house Lempertz in Cologne, Germany, until she moved to New York in 2002. Together with her husband Eijer owns an online ‘gallery’ for Japanese antiques and art, by the name of ‘Welcome To Another Century’, specializing in Buddhist sculpture, Buddhist painting, Mingei and unusual objects. Eijer has been cataloguing Japanese woodblock prints for the Lemperts auction house catalogues since 2002. She has also been the part-time assistant of one of New York’s Japanese art gallery owners since 2008.
1.5 CE credits FEES
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