TWO JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE

TWO JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE
EDO/MEIJI, 18TH/19TH CENTURY

The first carved as a cluster of suggestive mushrooms, signed Tomonobu underneath, 4.2cm; the other modelled as three bean pods, 4.2cm; together with a small carved nut with figures and a ram, probably Chinese, 3.5cm. (3)

Provenance: from the Mark and Elizabeth Harding Collection, South Africa.