A wood tonkotsu decorated in gold lacquer, mother-of-pearl and scattered hirame with a butterfly with spread wings, the reverse with a smaller butterfly (chips) -- 4in.wide, attached ojime and wood cicada netsuke, signed Tadamoto.

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A wood tonkotsu decorated in gold lacquer, mother-of-pearl and scattered hirame with a butterfly with spread wings, the reverse with a smaller butterfly (chips) -- 4in.wide, attached ojime and wood cicada netsuke, signed Tadamoto.
Formerly in the Behrens Collection
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