FOUR JAPANESE NETSUKE

FOUR JAPANESE NETSUKE

EDO AND MEIJI, 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY

One carved in wood and depicting an ornate cage or basket, the sides with openwork designs of flowers and leafy tendrils, signed; the three others made of metal, the largest shaped as a double-gourd with a ring around its waist; another a ryusa netsuke made in two halves and decorated with many flowerheads, and the last a model of a thatched pavilion in a garden, a figure standing before it, 7.5cm max. (4)

Provenance: an Irish private collection, Dublin.

PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE.