λ NINE JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE MEIJI PERIOD

λ NINE JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE

MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY

Depicting figures engaged in a variety of activities: one an okimono­-style netsuke of three painters fighting with their brushes; another two boys playing with a frog and a turtle; a third carved as a mirror polisher; the others depicting men at leisure or working, some with signatures including Tomohisa, Gyokuzan, Gyokuji, Hidemasa, Hideaki, Ryuraku, and Ryomin, 6.4cm max. (9)

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