Japanese Works of Art - 1st July 2020

Lot 412

λ FOUR JAPANESE NETSUKE EDO AND MEIJI PERIOD

Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £450

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Description

λ FOUR JAPANESE NETSUKE

EDO AND MEIJI PERIOD, 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY

Three in wood, variously depicting two mushrooms, two sages conversing inside a giant fruit and a stylised doll; the fourth in ivory and carved as a basket containing fruiting branches of persimmon; together with a Chinese nut carved as two figures emerging from a giant shell, 5cm max. (5)

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

PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE.