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λ A JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE OF AN IMMORTAL λ THREE JAPANESE NETSUKE
EDO PERIOD OR LATER, 19 CENTURY EDO AND MEIJI PERIOD, 18 AND 19 CENTURY
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Stained and carved as a sennin seated on a rocky outcrop, the Immortal Two in ivory, one carved as a man and a recumbent ox, the other a tsuitate
typically depicted wearing a coat of mugwort leaves, 4.3cm. screen with a figure holding a fan to one side and a jar under a pine tree to
£200-300 the other; together with an erotic stag antler netsuke of a beauty dressing
herself in lose robes, smiling while revealing her right breast, 7cm max. (3)
Provenance: an English private collection, London and Shetland.
£300-500

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λ FOUR JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE λ FOUR JAPANESE NETSUKE
MEIJI PERIOD, 19 CENTURY EDO AND MEIJI PERIOD, 18 AND 19 CENTURY
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Two carved as Tobosaku Sennin and the Peach of Immortality, the third Three in wood, variously depicting two mushrooms, two sages conversing
Susanoo slaying the Yamata no Orochi, the fourth depicting a man struggling inside a giant fruit and a stylised doll; the fourth in ivory and carved as a
to carry a large shell, 7cm max. (4) basket containing fruiting branches of persimmon; together with a Chinese
nut carved as two figures emerging from a giant shell, 5cm max. (5)
PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE.
£200-300 PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE.
£200-300
Provenance: from the collection of a lady of title, and thence by descent.

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λ THREE JAPANESE NETSUKE λ THREE JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE
MEIJI PERIOD, 19 CENTURY MEIJI PERIOD, 19 CENTURY
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One in stag antler carved as a monkey resting inside a giant bamboo shoot; One depicting a drunk shojo lying against a sake cup, its long hair stained red
another in marine ivory of a farmer and his large ox and the third in ivory of and signed Jugyoku to the base, another a shishi resting its front paws on a
two children at play, signed Masatoshi, 3.8cm max. (3) large bowl and baring its teeth, unsigned, the third carved as a man seated
PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE. at a table with two swallows dressed in women’s kimonos, signed Rakusho,
4.6cm max. (3)
£150-250
£200-300
84 See paragraphs 4 & 5 of our conditions of business at the back of the catalogue for additional charges on the final hammer prices