Seven seal netsuke of various materials


Edo period (1615-1868), 18th to mid 19th centuryFive of ivory, comprising a seated dog, scratching its face with a hind paw, unsigned, 3.5cm (1 3/8in) wide; two monkeys fighting over a high base, unsigned, 4.2cm (1 5/8in) high; a shishi standing on an oval seal base, unsigned, 4.2cm (1 5/8in) wide; a small coiled dragon on an oval seal base, unsigned, 3.5cm (1 3/8in) wide; and a group of seals with various handles, including a grazing horse, and a shishi, unsigned, 3.8cm (1½in) high; one of bone, in the form of a hakutaku, unsigned, 6cm (2 3/8in) high; and a wood netsuke of a seated shishi on a base, unsigned, 4.5cm (1¾in) high. (7).