λ A JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE 19TH CENTURY Carved as a persimmon

λ A JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE

19TH CENTURY

Carved as a persimmon, the fruit signed Unsho Hakuryu with kakihan, 2.9cm.

Cf. S L Moss, They are all fire and every one doth shine,The Elly Nordskog collection, pp.398-399, no.136, where this piece is illustrated, and F Meinertzhagen, The Meinertzhagen Card Index on Netsuke in the Archives of the British Museum, Part A, p.121, for another comparable persimmon by Hakuryu.