λ THREE JAPANESE MIXED MATERIALS NETSUKE

EDO AND MEIJI PERIOD, 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY

The first in lacquered wood and ivory and carved as Daruma, the Father of Zen Buddhism with spectacles and absorbed in the book opened before him; the second of a monkey examining a beetle on a persimmon with a magnifying glass, in ivory and with the insect inlaid, signed Shomin / Masatami in a rectangular reserve underneath; the third of a large tanuki with its young, with long grasses inlaid in stained ivory and horn to the back, signed Togyoku, 5cm max. (3)

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