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A GROUP OF THREE NETSUKE
(19TH CENTURY)
The first of wood carved as a group of seals of various shapes and sizes placed one against the other to form a pierced square, the second composed as a wood pine cone opening the reveal the diminutive figures of the Takasago couple, and the third of ivory rendered as a rat climbing a wax candle, the top of which he has nibbled, signed in an oval cartouche Mitsutoshi, the himotoshi on the underside--1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm.), 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm.) high, 2 in. (5 cm.) long (3)
(19TH CENTURY)
The first of wood carved as a group of seals of various shapes and sizes placed one against the other to form a pierced square, the second composed as a wood pine cone opening the reveal the diminutive figures of the Takasago couple, and the third of ivory rendered as a rat climbing a wax candle, the top of which he has nibbled, signed in an oval cartouche Mitsutoshi, the himotoshi on the underside--1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm.), 1 5/8 in. (4.2 cm.) high, 2 in. (5 cm.) long (3)