A JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE EDO 1603-1868 Depicting a fierce-looking eagle restraining a small fox...

£2,000 - £2,500

A JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE

EDO 1603-1868

Depicting a fierce-looking eagle restraining a small fox between its claws, the feathers of its wings crisply carved and with inlaid eyes, unsigned, 4.4cm.

See Quinn's Washington, the Netsuke Collection of John and Helen Mang, 12th July 2012, lot 458, for a closely related eagle and fox purchased from F Meinertzhagen in 1959.

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