A JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE EDO/MEIJI PERIOD Depicting a dog

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A JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE EDO/MEIJI PERIOD Depicting a dog, a monkey and a rabbit wrestling, the latters' eyes inlaid in horn, signed Ikkosai underneath, 4cm. Cf. F Meinertzhagen, The Meinertzhagen Card Index on Netsuke in the Archives of the British Museum, Part A, p.226, where six different netsukeshi using this signature are listed.