A Japanese ivory carving of a standing farmer holding up a cockerel with streaming tail feathers, a bundle and a hen sitting in a basket on the ground beside him, the details stained black, on oval base -- 7¼in.high, signed; and another ivory carving of a standing fisherman holding a basket of fish from the harpoon held over his shoulder and carrying two fish in his left hand, on oval base -- 5½in.high.

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A Japanese ivory carving of a standing farmer holding up a cockerel with streaming tail feathers, a bundle and a hen sitting in a basket on the ground beside him, the details stained black, on oval base -- 7¼in.high, signed; and another ivory carving of a standing fisherman holding a basket of fish from the harpoon held over his shoulder and carrying two fish in his left hand, on oval base -- 5½in.high.
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