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λ A JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE OF A TIGER AND HER CUB λ TWO JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE OF TIGERS
EDO PERIOD, 18 CENTURY MEIJI PERIOD, 19 CENTURY
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The feline depicted with her head turned to sinister, a paw gently placed on Both carved as a larger feline and its two young, realistically modelled and
the back of the small cub before her, both with long elegant tails and with with the ivory stained to imitate the stripes, their eyes inlaid in mother of
their eyes inlaid, signed Tomotada underneath, 3.6cm. pearl, both signed to the back Hakuryu in a gourd-shaped reserve, 4.6cm and
4cm respectively. (2)
£500-1,000
£400-600
Provenance: an English private collection, Westminster.
Provenance: from the collection of a lady of title, and thence by descent.
Cf. F Meinertzhagen, The Meinertzhagen Card Index on Netsuke in the Archives
of the British Museum, Part A, p.120, for other examples of tiger netsuke by
Hakuryu.

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λ THREE JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE OF TIGERS
EDO PERIOD AND LATER, 18 AND 19 CENTURY
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One licking its cub, with the eyes inlaid and the stripes realistically rendered, signed underneath; another seated and baring its fangs, the third reclining and with
its long tail resting on its back, 5cm max. (3)
£2,000-3,000
Provenance: from the collection of a lady of title, and thence by descent.

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