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TEN JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE OF FIGURES
MEIJI PERIOD, 19 CENTURY
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Variously depicting travellers, entertainers, itinerant manzai performers and
others, one a man crawling between the legs of three others, another with
his grandson on his back, some with signatures including Kuni/Koku, Kokuho,
Hiro and Hiromitsu, 7.4cm max. (10)
£400-600
Provenance: from the collection of a lady of title, and thence by descent.

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SIX JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE OF BOYS
MEIJI PERIOD, 19 CENTURY
TH
Depicted engaged in a variety of activities, five wearing lion masks for
the shishi-mai dance and another riding an ox, together with a netsuke in
resin of a child doing the akanbe gesture (pulling his eyelid and sticking his
tongue out) and a small hinged box, possibly for tobacco, shaped as two
children climbing on a large sack, some with signatures including Gyokuho,
5.6cm max. (8)
£400-600
Provenance: from the collection of a lady of title, and thence by descent.

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NINE JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE
MEIJI PERIOD, 19 CENTURY
TH
Variously carved as two drunk shojo sleeping, two men with sake bottles and
another drinking, three blind men, including one signed Gyokukei, and the
last trying to lift a stone which is transforming into a tanuki racoon dog, some
with signatures including Gyokuhei and Shiko, 5.3cm max. (9)
£400-600
Provenance: from the collection of a lady of title, and thence by descent.

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