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FOUR WOOD FIGURE NETSUKE SIX WOOD NETSUKE A WOOD NETSUKE GROUP OF RATS
Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century By Ikko, Edo period (1615-1868) or
The first a man looking to the right with Comprising: a woman holding a bolt of silk Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th century
pursed lips, imitating Tekkai Sennin, a double and an umbrella, unsigned, 6cm (2½in) Consisting of one large rat seated, eating
gourd slung on his back, unsigned, 5.7cm high; a foreign fisherman holding down a a morsel while one offspring sits on its
(2¼in) high; the second an old man standing, large fish on a watery base, signed illegibly, haunches at the side and a second climbing
holding a staff, unsigned, 6cm (2 3/8in) 3.5cm (1 3/8in) high; a hunter seated with a over its back, one trailing tail forming the
high; the third a woodsman bent beneath captured fox in a sack on his back, inscribed himotoshi and the eyes inlaid; signed Ikko.
the weight of two bundles of brushwood on Hidemasa, 3.2cm (1¼in) wide; Konoha Tengu 3.5cm (1 3/8in) high.
his back, signed illegibly, 5.1cm (2in) high; stirring miso with his long nose, unsigned,
the fourth an oni (demon), seated, washing 3.8cm (1½in) wide; Raijin seated on his large £800 - 1,000
clothes in shallow tub, unsigned, 3.8cm thunder drum, unsigned, 3.5cm (1 3/8in) JPY120,000 - 150,000
(1½in) high. (4). high; and a kappa trying to entice a frog from US$1,100 - 1,400
beneath a domed lotus leaf, signed Yuzan,
£1,000 - 1,500 4.2cm (1 5/8in) wide. (6).
JPY150,000 - 230,000
US$1,400 - 2,100 £1,000 - 1,500
JPY150,000 - 230,000
US$1,400 - 2,100

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