Important South African & International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Live Auction, 14 March 2016
Session 2
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Three Japanese ivory netsuke, 19th century
the first carved with the seated figure of Gama Sennin holding the front left leg of his toad which sits on his shoulders and head, his right hand holding a peach, the toad's eyes inlaid woth dark horn, 4cm high; the second with a seated figure of an oni, of powerful build and wearing a tigerskin loincloth, his right arm entwined with a rope and his body resting against his mokuguyo, signed, 4cm high; and the figure of Tanuki dressed as a priest holding a rosary in his right hand and a staff in his left, his back resting against sheaves of grain with a tethered rat below, the other crouching figure disguised as Daikoku, indistinctly signed, 3,5mc high