λ A JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE 19TH CENTURY Depicting a large rat eating a spray of millet and with a...

λ A JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE

19TH CENTURY

Depicting a large rat eating a spray of millet and with a smaller pup on its back, the hair finely carved and the eyes inlaid, signed Okatomo in a rectangular cartouche to the reverse, 4.4cm.

Cf. F Meinertzhagen, The Meinertzhagen Card Index on Netsuke in the Archives of the British Museum, Part B, p.619, where other rats by Okatomo are illustrated.