A RARE STAGANTLER NETSUKE depicting a Mongolian archer, wearing a large hat and a long-sleeved coat, a quiver of arrows on his back, his hair dressed in ringlets and wearing a short beard, the facial features finely carved, late 18th/early 19th century

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A RARE STAGANTLER NETSUKE depicting a Mongolian archer, wearing a large hat and a long-sleeved coat, a quiver of arrows on his back, his hair dressed in ringlets and wearing a short beard, the facial features finely carved, late 18th/early 19th century
9.6cm. high

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A particularly good example of this model, apparently a Tarter archer, but with strangely European features

Cf. Bushell Collection Part I, no. 282, for a similar but earlier and more worn model

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