FOUR JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE

FOUR JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE

MEIJI ERA, 19TH CENTURY

All depicting figures engaged in various activities: one an elderly man and a child opening up double-gourds; another depicting Ono no Komachi as an elderly woman resting on a toppled wood post, inscribed underneath; the third a seated craftsman painting a mask; all three signed; and the fourth a boy lifting a large Daruma doll; together with a compressed horn netsuke of a boy with a basket, 6.2cm max. (5)

Provenance: an Irish private collection, Dublin.

PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE.