FOUR JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE

EDO PERIOD AND LATER, 18TH CENTURY AND LATER

Three depicting rabbits: one in a small boat, signed Jujo / Toshinori with kakihan; another in the shape of a ball and gnawing on its back paw; the third two rabbits huddled up together; together with a netsuke of a rat on a large mushroom, eating a small pea pod with chestnuts before him, the eyes inlaid in horn and signed Masanao, 4cm max. (4)

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