AN IVORY NETSUKE OF A CRAB on a clump of clam and conch shells, one stained black, the open ones revealing miniature landscapes with figures hidden within, the inscriptions describing them as the Meisho tsuki sankei (Three famous places under the moonlight), Sarashina, Suma and Ishiyama, signed Gyokuhosai with Ryuchin seal, 19th century

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AN IVORY NETSUKE OF A CRAB on a clump of clam and conch shells, one stained black, the open ones revealing miniature landscapes with figures hidden within, the inscriptions describing them as the Meisho tsuki sankei (Three famous places under the moonlight), Sarashina, Suma and Ishiyama, signed Gyokuhosai with Ryuchin seal, 19th century
4.5cm.wide

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