Five Wood Netsukes

Five Wood Netsukes

19TH CENTURY

the first a head of a Chinese lion, signed Masahide, 正秀; the second a seated shishi lion on a drum; the third a standing farmer, the reverse inscribed with a two-character maker's mark, 川二; the fourth a pair of pit-form examples, each inscribed with two-character maker's mark, 太倉.
Height of longest 3 1/8 in., 8 cm.
Property from the Estate of Eliot A. Landau, Woodridge, Illinois Asian Art
Lion-head form Netsuke:
Acquired from Kajis Antique, Kyoto, Japan, October 23, 1984