λ FIVE JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE MEIJI 1868-1912 Two carved as boys playing musical instruments

λ FIVE JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE

MEIJI 1868-1912

Two carved as boys playing musical instruments, one signed Sadatsugu, the other unsigned; another of a boy with a minogame, signed Gyokumin; the fourth depicting two boys fighting, signed Hidechika, and the last a woman and boy, signed Riugioku, 3.9cm. (5)

Cf. F Meinertzhagen, The Meinertzhagen Card Index on Netsuke in the Archives of the British Museum, Part B, p.668, for a comparable netsuke of a woman and child by Riugioku from the G H Naunton collection.