SEVEN JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE OF FIGURES

MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY

Depicting men engaged in various activities, two polishing mirrors, one carving a mask, another sharpening a sickle, together with a horn netsuke of a man with a basket seated on a tree stump, some with signatures including Masayuki, Hokei and Shoju, 4.2cm max. (8)

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