FOUR JAPANESE NETSUKE EDO/MEIJI PERIODS One a marine ivory manju with a rubbed out figure

FOUR JAPANESE NETSUKE

EDO/MEIJI PERIODS

One a marine ivory manju with a rubbed out figure, another a ryusa with lotus, marine animals and chrysanthemum, the third a metal and ivory hako netsuke with the character for ki and a chrysanthemum mon, the fourth a tsuishu lacquer hako with a shishi and brocade balls on an asa-no-ha ground, signed Yosei tsukuru, 5.2cm max.(5)

Cf. F Meinertzhagen, The Meinertzhagen Card Index on Netsuke in the Archives of the British Museum, Part B, p.981, where the tsuishu hako netsuke is illustrated.