TWO JAPANESE STAG ANTLER RYUSA NETSUKE EDO/MEIJI PERIOD Both of circular form

TWO JAPANESE STAG ANTLER RYUSA NETSUKE

EDO/MEIJI PERIOD

Both of circular form, one pierced with shaped apertures and with a central button depicting a pomegranate, the other depicting a gong with a scroll-shaped handle and a central hidari-mitsudomoe design of three teardrops in a circle, 4.8cm max. (2)

The hidari-mitsudomoe design was widely used in Shinto shrines and as a family crest, kamon, notably by the Kobayakawa and Utsunomiya clans.