A COLLECTION OF JAPANESE MASKS

A COLLECTION OF JAPANESE MASKS

MEIJI ERA, 19TH/20TH CENTURY

Comprising: a large ashtray carved as a demonic face with its mouth wide open; two pottery netsuke, one of Usofuku and the other of Okame, both signed; a metal netsuke of a grimacing face; and two wood netsuke, one of a horned oni and the other of a lion dog for the shishimai dance, with movable lower jaw, signed, 6.8cm max. (6)

Provenance: an Irish private collection, Dublin.

PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE.