λ NINE JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE AND AN OJIME EDO PERIOD AND LATER

λ NINE JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE AND AN OJIME

EDO PERIOD AND LATER, 18TH CENTURY AND LATER

Carved as children, the ojime a toddler playing with cymbals, two netsuke depicting boys building a Daruma-shaped snowman; another in wood hiding behind a small screen, two playing a board game on a low table, another bending over a giant peach and the others depicted engaged in a variety of activities, some with signatures including Masamitsu, Tomohisa, Tomoshige and Masahiro, 4.2cm max. (10)

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