λ TEN JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE EDO AND MEIJI PERIOD

λ TEN JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE

EDO AND MEIJI PERIOD, 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY

Depicting figures engaged in various activities: one a hunter with his pet monkey observing another primate fighting a rabbit with inlaid eyes; another a thwarted rat catcher; the third depicting two long-legged Ashinagas; the fourth a man seated by a brazier; the fifth another trying to get a small dog out of a paper lantern; four standing figures, one naked, and the last, a man with a small tanuki on his back, some with signatures including Minkoku, Jugyoku, Saneo and Tomochika, 7cm max. (10)

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