Lot 256
COLLECTION OF ELEVEN CARVED IVORY NETSUKE Y
MEIJI PERIOD
Auction: 20 March 2018 at 11:00 GMT
£750
Description
comprising: a human skeleton beating a wooden fish, signed Shozan; a cicada perched on a bamboo stalk, signed Shozan; a grasshopper perched on a cabbage, signature illegible; two grasshoppers perched on a piece of tree bark, signed Tomokazu; a cobra coiled around a human skull, signed Shozan; an alligator perched on a gourd, signature within a mother-of-pearl plaque illegible; a snail, signed Shozan; a monkey seated on a tree trunk, signed Sari; eight cranes tightly huddled together, signed Sari; two monkeys playing with each other, unsigned; the fox-priest Hakuzosu, signed Kogyoku (11)
Dimensions
largest 7.8cm long
Footnote
Provenance:
Private English collection.