λ FOUR JAPANESE NETSUKE MEIJI 1868-1912 Three in ivory and variously depicting a reclining monkey

λ FOUR JAPANESE NETSUKE

MEIJI 1868-1912

Three in ivory and variously depicting a reclining monkey, a boy with a drum and an elderly couple with a minogame and a tortoise, the latter two signed; the fourth in wood and carved as a dog and her puppy, signed Sansha, together with a small ivory seal in two parts carved as frogs on a square base, 4cm max. (5)

Provenance: from the collection of W B Tapp (d.1992), Bristol.