A lacquer hako netsuke formed as a clam Late 18th/early 19th century Lacquered on the usu-nashiji ground with aquatic plants and with smaller shells applied in brown and silver takamaki-e, the interior of black lacquer and with a brass loose ring cord attachment; unsigned. 4.7cm (1 7/8in). Footnotes: リザーブ設定無し 蒔絵箱根付　蛤　無銘　18世紀後期/19世紀前期 Exhibited: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1972, no.10. The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art: Part IV, lot 86. www.bonhams.com/auctions/20493/lot/86/ Lot to be sold without reserve. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com