λ EIGHT JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE OF BOYS MEIJI PERIOD

λ EIGHT JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE OF BOYS

MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY

Depicted engaged in a variety of activities, some playing, helping adults and causing mischief, one catching a small fish out of a tank, another in stag antler laughing whilst holding a sake bottle behind his back, together with a small okimono carved as a child playing with a mask, a paper collection label underneath for "1926 Wimbledon Curphey", some with signatures including Tomochika, Gyokumin, Tomohisa, Jusen and Rensai, 6cm max. (10)

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