Lot 376
GROUP OF SEVEN IVORY NETSUKE Y
MEIJI PERIOD
Auction: 22 March 2016 at 10:00 GMT
£525
Description
comprising; two boys learning to write; Fukurokuju holding a double-gourd bottle; a figural group depicting the assistant of a rice seller pouring rice into a basket; Fukurokuju with a boy holding a peach, signed Masayuki; two bookkeepers, one holding an abacus, the other the ledger, signed Gyokushi; a man and a rat; a mountain, elaborately carved with bamboo, pine and a waterfall, with scholars gathered outside pavilions, signed Ryumin (7)
Dimensions
largest 5.6cm long
Footnote
Provenance:
Private English Collection.