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A KYOTO SCHOOL IVORY NETSUKE
EDO PERIOD (FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED RANICHI
Carved as a tigress with her two cubs, her tail arched and curling up her back, with one cub under her front paw and the other standing on her hind leg, the hairwork lightly incised and stained, the eyes inlaid in mother of pearl, signed in an oval cartouche--4.5 cm. long
EDO PERIOD (FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED RANICHI
Carved as a tigress with her two cubs, her tail arched and curling up her back, with one cub under her front paw and the other standing on her hind leg, the hairwork lightly incised and stained, the eyes inlaid in mother of pearl, signed in an oval cartouche--4.5 cm. long