λ ELEVEN JAPANESE WOOD

λ ELEVEN JAPANESE WOOD, LACQUER AND IVORY NETSUKE OF ENTERTAINERS

MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY

Variously depicting entertainers, itinerant manzai performers playing the drum, dancers, actors, one wearing a fox mask and another with a lion costume, two manju carved as clusters of Noh masks, and other figures, some with signatures including Tomochika, Tomohisa, Ryomin and Tadachika, 4.5cm max. (6)

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