THREE JAPANESE NETSUKE

THREE JAPANESE NETSUKE
MEIJI ERA, 19TH/20TH CENTURY

All three with the bowl made out of wood, one a type of kagamibuta netsuke adapted from a Satsuma button; the largest a manju carved with an armour-clad man wearing an eboshi hat; the third a ryusa decorated in openwork with landscapes to the side, the top carved as a stylised pavilion on a sea wall, 5.2cm max. (3)

Provenance: an English private collection, Somerset, purchased in Japan.