λ A JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE 19TH CENTURY Carved as a monkey biting a large biwa fruit and holding...

λ A JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE

19TH CENTURY

Carved as a monkey biting a large biwa fruit and holding another one between his feet, its crossed eyes inlaid in amber and its teeth in bone or ivory, its back leg signed Tomokazu in an oblong reserve, 2.9cm.

Cf. Bonhams, 13th May 2013, Fine netsuke from the Adrienne Barbanson Collection, lot 19; and also M Coullery & M Newstead, The Baur Collection Geneva: Netsuke (Selected Pieces), n.C1034, p.333 for comparable pieces signed Tomokazu.