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AN IVORY NETSUKE
EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY), SIGNED KOGETSU
Well carved as a large, pierced lotus leaf and wasp, on the top the wasp crawling in the hollow of the curved leaf next to two small shells, on the reverse a snail and the thick stem of the leaf, signed on the underside, himotoshi formed as two of the holes in the leaf, details stained dark--2 1/8 in. (5.5 cm.) diameter
EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY), SIGNED KOGETSU
Well carved as a large, pierced lotus leaf and wasp, on the top the wasp crawling in the hollow of the curved leaf next to two small shells, on the reverse a snail and the thick stem of the leaf, signed on the underside, himotoshi formed as two of the holes in the leaf, details stained dark--2 1/8 in. (5.5 cm.) diameter