Japanese Works of Art - 1st July 2020

Lot 371

TEN JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE OF FIGURES MEIJI PERIOD

Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £1000

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Description

TEN JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE OF FIGURES

MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY

Variously depicting travellers, entertainers, itinerant manzai performers and others, one a man crawling between the legs of three others, another with his grandson on his back, some with signatures including Kuni / Koku, Kokuho, Hiro and Hiromitsu, 7.4cm max. (10)

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