AN IVORY NETSUKE of a sennin wearing mugwort, his hair in Chinese style, a toad climbing his shoulder, another between his legs, 18th century; a wood okimono of a skull resting on a hossu, the teeth inset in ivory, signed Tomochika (age crack), 19th century; and an ebony sashi netsuke modelled as a scholar's brush, the ebony brush with ivory finial of a karashishi on a plinth, engraved with a poem, 19th century

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AN IVORY NETSUKE of a sennin wearing mugwort, his hair in Chinese style, a toad climbing his shoulder, another between his legs, 18th century; a wood okimono of a skull resting on a hossu, the teeth inset in ivory, signed Tomochika (age crack), 19th century; and an ebony sashi netsuke modelled as a scholar's brush, the ebony brush with ivory finial of a karashishi on a plinth, engraved with a poem, 19th century
4.3cm., 5cm. and 17.5cm. respectively (3)

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