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λ NINE JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE OF BOYS λ NINE JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE AND AN OJIME
MEIJI PERIOD, 19 CENTURY EDO PERIOD AND LATER, 18 CENTURY AND LATER
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Depicted engaged in a variety of activities, some playing, helping adults and Carved as children, the ojime a toddler playing with cymbals, two netsuke
causing mischief, one catching a small fish out of a tank, another in stag depicting boys building a Daruma-shaped snowman; another in wood hiding
antler laughing whilst holding a sake bottle behind his back, together with a behind a small screen, two playing a board game on a low table, another
small okimono carved as a child playing with a mask, a paper collection label bending over a giant peach and the others depicted engaged in a variety of
underneath for “1926 Wimbledon Curphey”, some with signatures including activities, some with signatures including Masamitsu, Tomohisa, Tomoshige
Tomochika, Gyokumin, Tomohisa, Jusen and Rensai, 6cm max. (10) and Masahiro, 4.2cm max. (10)
£500-1,000 £400-600
Provenance: from the collection of a lady of title, and thence by descent. Provenance: from the collection of a lady of title, and thence by descent.

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λ THREE JAPANESE NETSUKE λ FOUR JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE
EDO AND MEIJI PERIOD, 18 AND 19 CENTURY MEIJI PERIOD, 19 CENTURY
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Two in ivory, one carved as a monkey seated on a rock and scratching his One carved as Shoki the Demon Queller with a small oni on his large
head, the other Gama Sennin, the Immortal typically depicted wearing brimmed hat; another a samurai holding a lance with another man at his feet,
mugwort leaves and with his pet toad clinging onto his shoulder, together signed Tomohisa; the third an archer holding a broken arrow and the fourth
with a stag antler netsuke of a traveller with a wide brimmed hat and a a Mongolian horse rider, together with a stag antler netsuke of Gama Sennin,
walking stick, 8.5cm max. (3) 8.3cm max. (5)
£200-300 PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE.
Provenance: an English private collection, Westminster. £200-300
Provenance: from the collection of a lady of title, and thence by descent.
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