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Recumbent Ox

Netsuke: Recumbent Ox

Signature/mei: unsigned

Material: boxwood

Era/jidai: 19th century

Dimension(h/l): 2.4 x 5.5 cm

Price: €1150 / $1290 / ¥180000

The ox ‘s head is turned to the left. The eyes double inlaid in bone and horn. The condition is slightly worn with minor scratches to the underside and a small crack behind the neck.

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Seated monkey

Netsuke: Seated monkey

Signature/mei: unsigned

Material: boxwood

Era/jidai: 19th century

Dimension(h): 3.2 cm

Price: €1150 / $1290 / ¥180000

A boxwood netsuke of a seated monkey in good condition with only miniscule dents and scratches.
Scratching itself with the left forepaw and holding a now missing fruit to his mouth. The eye pupils inlaid.

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Seated boar

Netsuke: Seated boar

Signature/mei: unsigned

Material: wood

Era/jidai: late 19th / early 20th century

Dimension(h): 2.4 cm

Price: €1290 / $1450 / ¥200000

A wood netsuke of a seated boar in good condition. The raised head turned to the left, with long tusks and tiny inlaid eye pupils of horn.

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Two Monkeys

Netsuke/Okimono: Two Monkeys

Signature/mei: Mitsukuni

Material: boxwood

Era/jidai: 19th century

Dimension(h): 3.4 cm

Price: €1190 / $1290 / ¥190000

The larger monkey scratching his forearm, the smaller monkey picking fleas. The eye pupils double inlaid in horn. Signed Mitsukuni in an oval reserve.

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Jûnishi: the 12 signs of the zodiac

Netsuke: Jûnishi

Signature/mei: Masamitsu

Material: ivory

Era/jidai: late 19th century

Dimension(h): 3.3 cm

Certificate: Marketing authorization for the EU internal market

Price: €1290 / $1450 / ¥200000

The group of twelve animals forms a compact shape set on flat cloud base, including tiger, dragon, horse, boar and ox carved as large animals while the others are fitted into spaces between them, partly carved in openwork. All animals with inlaid eye pupils, a few of them lost. Signed Masamitsu in a rounded cartouche.
Please note that due to the ivory, this netsuke can only be shipped within the EU or must be picked up locally.

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Manjû – Rain dragon in Clouds

Manjû : Rain dragon in Clouds

Signature/mei: unsigned

Material: colored ivory

Era/jidai: 2nd half of the 19th century

Dimension(d): 4.1 cm

Certificate: Marketing authorization for the EU internal market

Price: €1790 / $1990 / ¥280000

On the display side, in a flower-shaped reserve, a rain dragon in clouds, on the back the two characters “” and “” (tôyô = Eastern Sea) on a seigaiha pattern background.
Please note that due to the ivory, this manjû can only be shipped within the EU or must be picked up locally.

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Inrô – Shôki

Inrô: Shôki the Demon Queller

Signature/mei: unsigned

Material: wood/lacquer

Era/jidai: 19th century

Dimension(h/w): 8.1 x 5.8 cm

Price: €890 / $990 / ¥140000

This 4-piece Inrô is made of red carved lacquer. In a matching cartouche on one side Shôki with drawn sword on a bridge under a pine tree, on the other side a fleeing oni on a cloud above a rushing river. The inside is . The inside of the compartments is painted with black lacquer.

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Large Snake

Netsuke: Large Snake

Signature/mei: Unsigned

Material: Wood

Era/jidai: Early 19th century

Dimension(h): 3.2 cm

Price: €1600 / $1800 / ¥250000

Snake coiled five times. The scales are represented by notches on the upper part of the body and head.