AN IVORY NETSUKE

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AN IVORY NETSUKE
EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY), SIGNED TOMONOBU

Carved as a ball of rats climbing one over the other, the hair rendered in fine etched lines stained dark and other portions of the rats polished smooth, the himotoshi formed by the natural spaces created by the conjoined rats, signed in an oblong cartouche--2 in. (5.1 cm.) long