Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - Day 2 - 21 Apr 2021

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λ A COLLECTION OF NINE JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE

£500 - £800 £700

λ A COLLECTION OF NINE JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE

EDO AND MEIJI PERIODS, 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY

variously carved as figures engaged in daily pursuits, one with three fishermen on a boat attacked by a giant octopus, another with a man crawling between the legs of another, signed 'Masatsugu' in a red lacquer plaque to the base, another a seated man with a fan signed 'Hideyama', some with paper collection labels (9)

8.7cm (max)

Provenance

Formerly the collection of Sir Sydney Richard Wells, 1st Baronet, D.L., M.P. for Bedford (1879-1957) of Felmersham Grange, Bedfordshire, and thence by descent.

 

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