AN IVORY NETSUKE

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AN IVORY NETSUKE
EDO PERIOD (MID 19TH CENTURY), SIGNED ISSEN

Modelled as a group of the shinokosho "the four classes of society", the samurai, the farmer, the artisan and the merchant, details etched and stained, signed in the base, himotoshi formed by placement of figures--1 1/8 in. (3 cm.) high