A Group of Three Lacquer Netsuke

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A Group of Three Lacquer Netsuke
The first, a boy wearing a red haragake (bib-like apron), perhaps Kintaro, trying to catch a black catfish with a golden gourd ("Hyōtan Namazu"); the second, a jovial Daikoku carrying his mallet and sack, his robes decorated with the nashiji technique; the third, a two-piece male mandarin duck with feathers finely expressed in hiramaki-e and moriage, the interior sprinkled with small flakes of gold and silver foil (3)
1 1/2in (3.8cm) high, the highest