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FOuR IVORy OkIMONO TwO gOld-lAcqueR INRO
19th century Edo period
Comprising: a kneeling musician, signed, 7.5cm high; a Rakkan The first of five cases, lacquered with the 53 stations on the Tokaido
reading upon an upturned barrel, 9.5cm high; a standing male with a Road (Tokaido gojusan tsugi), with named views, in gold takamaki-e,
cup and ball game in hand, 11cm high; together with a group of four the interior of nashiji, signed Shunkosai Seiho with a kao, 9.2cm high,
figures mounted to a rectangular plinth base. with a carved Chinese peach stone attached, the second a four-case
7cm wide (4). inro lacquered with a river rushing through a village, signed Kajikawa,
7.6cm high, with a wood manju netsuke and a metal ojime in the form
£250 - 350 of a nut.
(2).
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AN IVORy ANd SHIBAyAMA PAge TuRNeR TOgeTHeR wITH £600 - 800
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The blade decorated over both sides with a pair of song birds alighting A FOuR cOMPARTMeNT gOld-lAcqueR INRO
in a flowering magnolia tree in gold and silver hiramakie lacquer with Signed Jokasai, 19th century
mother-of-pearl and stained ivory details, the handle carved as an oni Decorated to each side with a Buddhist lion and complete with a
beating drums amidst clouds, 38.9cm long, the case worked with a lacquered wood netsuke of an abalone shell.
song bird and long inscription in silk and metallic threads on cream silk Inro 6.7cm high
ground.
31.5cm long (2). £400 - 600
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A gROuP OF FOuR IVORy OkIMONO ANd NeTSuke
Late 19th/early 20th century
Comprising: an okimono of a seated male figure holding a straw
bundle, signed, 5cm high; another of a mask seller, 4cm high; a
marine ivory netsuke of a rat catcher, 3.5cm high; together with a
signed ivory netsuke of a recumbent wild boar.
4.5cm (4).

£150 - 200

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