λ SIX JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE EDO AND MEIJI PERIOD

λ SIX JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE

EDO AND MEIJI PERIOD, 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY

Four depicting fishermen and their catches; one a benevolent-looking man resting on a small raft; another carved as Chokaro Sennin and a boy on a small boat, the Immortal releasing his miniature horse from his gourd; together with a stag antler netsuke carved as a catfish, namazu, some with signatures including Jugyoku, Anraku and Hikaku, 16.6cm max. (7)

Provenance: from the collection of a lady of title, and thence by descent.