AN INLAID WOOD FIGURE NETSUKE

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AN INLAID WOOD FIGURE NETSUKE
EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY), SIGNED RAKUMIN AND WITH KAKIHAN

In a group of two children, an older boy entertaining a younger boy who is climbing his back, the seated figure wearing on his sash at the back a miniature inro and netsuke inlaid in ivory and holding a chrysanthemum in one hand inlaid in mother of pearl and colored ivory, signed on base in rectangular mother of pearl reserve next to himotoshi--1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm.) high