An ebony netsuke of a tortoiseBy Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), Iwami Province, dated 1793Facing ahead, its head emerging from within its shell, its legs drawn in for compactness, the carapace embellished with ukibori pimples and the eyes inlaid in horn, signed Seki-shu Enokawa Seiyodo Tomiharu kyonen rokujuissai kore o chokoku toki ni Kansei mizunoto-ushi natsu rokugatsu nari (carved by the Eno River in Iwami by old man Seiyodo Tomiharu at the age of sixty-one in the sixth month during the summer of the mizunoto-ushi year of Kansei [1793]). 5.9cm (2 3/8in).注脚黒檀彫根付　亀　銘 「石州可愛河青陽堂富春享年六十一歳彫刻之于時寛政癸丑夏六月也」　1793年Provenance:Anne Hull Grundy Collection.Published:Earle, Huthart, p.54, no.36.