λ FOUR JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE MEIJI 1868-1912 One carved as an elderly woman carrying a child on...

λ FOUR JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE

MEIJI 1868-1912

One carved as an elderly woman carrying a child on her shoulders, another as two rakan on clouds, one of them possibly Handaka Sonja, the third with an old man and three boys playing go, all unsigned, the last depicting a man throwing beans on Setsubun, signed Shuosai in a rectangular cartouche to the back, 4.8cm max. (4)

Provenance: from the collection of Frank Robertson (d.2014).