“Dragon Dance”
$6,000.
Dia 1 7/8” x Ht 1”
 #258 - 1994 Manju Style Netsuke, With Antler Closure

A dragon fly swarm, dancing over a pond in the evening.

The antler closure was one of the first uses of carving materials other than clay. The other first use material was a piece of cow bone collected from the woods (Maple Springs, next entry). It was used as a closure for a netsuke, inro and ojime ensemble. The glow that emanated from the polished antler and the bone so intrigued me that I began to carve a little snake from a dear antler tip intermittently in the times in-between carving the small porcelain pieces of this final porcelain carving period. I ceased carving porcelain in May of 1995.

(Dragon Dance appeared in Ornament: “Janel Jacobson. Stirring The Dawn”,
Carolyn L.E. Benesh, Vol. 20, No. 3  (Spring 1997) Twentieth Anniversary Issue,
p. 42-47, cover photo and feature story)

(This piece appeared in the Renwick Invitational, 2000)