A WOOD AND IVORY NETSUKE

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A WOOD AND IVORY NETSUKE
(EARLY 20TH CENTURY), SIGNED AKISHIGE

Fashioned in the form of Daikoku's mallet, the center of wood inlaid at each end with an uncolored and colored ivory disc and applied with an ivory handle, wrapped by a green ivory 'tassel', and an ivory end toward which approaches an ivory rat, signed on a carved ivory cartouche- 1 1/2 in. (3.9 cm.) long