admin | May 23, 2010
These netsuke (miniature sculptures) are carved by Cornel Schneider from Kleinlützel, Switzerland. He was born in 1964 (the year of the Dragon). He began to cut netsuke late autumn 1995, immediately after a visit to an art show, where he saw the antique netsuke. He said: “I remember that moment very well, I was struck [...]
admin | April 17, 2010
These contemporary netsuke sculptures are carved by David Carlin from Mill Valley, California, United States. These sculptures are carved from boxwood and then stained and painted and inlayed with bone, glass and amber. Netsuke (Japanese:根付) are miniature sculptures that were invented in 17th-century Japan to serve a practical function (the two Japanese characters ne+tsuke mean [...]
admin | December 23, 2009
This miniature tool chest is 1/12th scale reproduction of the Hewlett chest, a “gentleman’s chest” made in England in 1773. This miniature masterpiece is made by William R. Robertson from Kansas City, United States. All the tools are functional, from the hand-engraved boxwood folding rule with its five-leaf hinge (what was recording to Robinson the [...]
