λ TWO JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE MEIJI 1868-1912 The first carved as a man holding bells

λ TWO JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE

MEIJI 1868-1912

The first carved as a man holding bells, the details picked out in coloured lacquer, signed Yoshi, the other as a drunk man with a gourd over his shoulder, holding a fan before him, signed Masaharu in seal script, 5.4cm. (2)

Provenance: formerly in an English private collection.

Cf. F Meinertzhagen, The Meinertzhagen Card Index on Netsuke in the Archives of the British Museum, Part A, p.410 for a netsuke of a fisherman bearing the same Masaharu seal.