A GROUP OF EIGHT WOOD AND IVORY NETSUKE**, MEIJI PERIOD (19TH CENTURY), including an ivory example of a fugu fish, signed; an ivory dragon-headed bell with a whisk; a polychrome-decorated wood figure of an actor, signed; a wood model of a toad with its young on its back resting on a woven mat, signed; a wood seal-type netsuke with a turtle finial, uncarved; a wood seated Fukurokuju with a scroll, signed; and a wood figure of Daikoku with his mallet raised in one hand, signed; and an ivory netsuke of a standing sage with a double gourd at his shoulder (8)