A GROUP OF SEVEN IVORY NETSUKE**, MEIJI PERIOD, the first depicting a boating party with one figure balancing a giant sake cup on his head; another carved as Jurojin and his deer; Fukurokuju and a fan; and another example of a man at work with rope and a mallet at his side; a crouching karako; a group of the seven lucky gods; another of a warrior surrounded by animals dressed for battle; TOGETHER with an okimono of a landscape contained within the shells of a clam (8)