λ TWO JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY One...
λ TWO JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY One depicting an ama, the pearl diving girl covering her mouth modestly as a large octopus entangles its tentacles around her body, her hair stained and its eyes inlaid, signed Tomomasa; the other a monkey emerging from a giant persimmon, signed Kogyoku, 4.3cm max. (2) Provenance: from an English private collection, West Yorkshire, formed in the 1970s and 1980s.
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λ TWO JAPANESE IVORY NETSUKE MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY One depicting an ama, the pearl diving girl covering her mouth modestly as a large octopus entangles its tentacles around her body, her hair stained and its eyes inlaid, signed Tomomasa; the other a monkey emerging from a giant persimmon, signed Kogyoku, 4.3cm max. (2) Provenance: from an English private collection, West Yorkshire, formed in the 1970s and 1980s.
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