AN IVORY NETSUKE depicting a tigress and her two cubs, one climbing on her back while the other sleeps beneath her front paw, her eyes inlaid in shell (signature worn, cub's eye missing, age cracks), signed in a gourd-shaped reserve Hakuryu, mid 19th century

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AN IVORY NETSUKE depicting a tigress and her two cubs, one climbing on her back while the other sleeps beneath her front paw, her eyes inlaid in shell (signature worn, cub's eye missing, age cracks), signed in a gourd-shaped reserve Hakuryu, mid 19th century
3.5cm. wide

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Although worn, the signature is recognizable as that of Hakuryu I, a finer artist than the second of this name. Many copies of his work are found.

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