A JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE OF MONKEYS

A JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE OF MONKEYS

MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY

Realistically carved as a primate cradling her young before her, their hair finely rendered and their eyes inlaid in light and dark horn, signed Ikko in a shaped reserve at the back, 3.6cm.

See Japanese Works of Art, 14th November 2018, lot 847 for a related netsuke by Ikko sold in these rooms. Also, see Christie's London, 15th May 2013, lot 421 for another example.

Cf. F Meinertzhagen, The Meinertzhagen Card Index on Netsuke in the Archives of the British Museum, Part A, p.225 where other monkeys by Ikko are listed.