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.

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