Six ivory netsuke


Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), 18th to 19th centuryComprising: a monkey seated on the back of a recumbent horse, inscribed Ran[..], 4.2cm (1 5/8in) wide; a resting actor eating and with a mask on the side of his head, signed Kisen with a kao, 3.8cm (1½in) high; a half-naked foreigner with a large pierced ball, unsigned, 4.2cm (1 5/8in) high; a monkey-trainer, unsigned, 6cm (2 3/8in) high; a boy with a fish banner seated beside a tsuitate (free-standing screen), unsigned, 3.8cm (1½in) high; a boy with a large sack, unsigned, 5.1cm (2in) wide. (6).