λ FIVE JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE MEIJI PERIOD

λ FIVE JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE

MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY

One large okimono­-style netsuke carved as Tentoki ­holding a lantern; two depicting oni; the fourth of Gamma Sennin with his pet toad and the fifth a kappa grabbing the leg of a fisherman, signed Tomochika, 5.6cm max. (5)

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

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