A Wood Netsuke

MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY), WITH SIGNATURE TOSHU

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A Wood Netsuke
Meiji Period (late 19th century), with signature Toshu
Of a Chinese boy wearing a courtier's cap and a coat of patterned red and gold cloth and holding a drum decorated with a mitsu-tomoe pattern
1¾in. (4.4cm.) high

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
George Lazarnick, Netsuke and Inro Artists, and how to read their signatures (Honolulu: Reed Publishers, 1981), p. 1179.

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