λ FOUR JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE OF MONKEYS MEIJI PERIOD

λ FOUR JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE OF MONKEYS

MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY

One primate quizzically looking at a bug climbing on the fruit before it; another eating a large persimmon; the third with its young and the last wrestling with a large eagle, two with signatures for Masatomo and Tadamitsu, 5.2cm max. (4)

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