λ NINE JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE MEIJI PERIOD

λ NINE JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE

MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY

Variously depicting figures and animals, fishermen and their catch, one Kinko Sennin riding his carp, signed Masatsugu, another carved as travellers on a boat, signed Tomochika, a horse rider and his attendant, a large ox on a rectangular base and Chokaro Sennin's horse galloping on its gourd, together with a stag antler netsuke of a recumbent ox, some others with signatures including Yasuaki, Masatsugu and Kogyokko, 6cm max. (10)

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

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