context: He told the members that a netsuke was at one time carefully carved by the man who wore it, building something of himself into the design, and although a class of professional netsuke makers arose later, whose work might have been more technically adept, it was ordinarily cold, stiff, and without imagination. ...
source: Missing was the element of the amateur carver, which causes these netsuke to be esteemed so much higher by the collector than the commercial product carved for money.
reference_original: Mancavano gli elementi riconducibili a un intagliatore amatoriale, che facevano schizzare le stime di questi netsuke tra i collezionisti rispetto a quelli prodotti a scopi commerciali.
reference_flipped: Mancavano gli elementi riconducibili a un'intagliatrice amatoriale, che facevano schizzare le stime di questi netsuke tra i collezionisti rispetto a quelli prodotti a scopi commerciali.