JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE BY MASATAMI 19th Century
In the form of a rat with a candle. Signed. Length 1.75".
Provenance: The Symmes / Shiro Kuma Collection.
Exhibited: Monsanto Gallery, Lander University, Greenwood, South Carolina, September 2011.
Literature: Netsuke, Japanese Life and Legend in Miniature
, p. 164-165 for an illustration and of this netsuke.
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