TWO JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE

TWO JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE

EDO OR MEIJI PERIOD, 18TH OR 19TH CENTURY

The first boxwood and carved as a cluster of mushrooms, the fungi of different sizes and the stalk of one forming the himotoshi, signed Masanao underneath; the other in darker wood and depicting a small plump rabbit, its eyes inlaid with minute pink beads, 3.6cm and 3.7cm. (2)