Description A LOT WITH THREE FIGURAL LACQUERED WOOD NETSUKEJapan, Edo period (1615-1868)Comprising three polychrome lacquered wood netsuke, the first netsuke carved as a temple servant, the two himotoshi at the back. The second netsuke depicting Hotei carrying a Karako boy on his shoulders, the two himotoshi at the back. The last netsuke depicting Hanasaka Jiji, sitting on a tree stump, in his hands a bowl of ashes which he uses to revive the dead trees, one himotoshi through the underside and the second himotoshi through the lower back.HEIGHT 4.1 – 5 cmCondition: Good condition with usual traces of wear and age and few lacquer flakes.Provenance: Family collection of either Felix Tikotin (1893-1986) or his son-in-law Louis (Loek) Borensztajn (1935-2021), Netherlands. Felix Tikotin (1893-1986) was an architect, art collector, dealer, and founder of the first Museum of Japanese Art in the Middle East. He became one of the world's leading collectors of Japanese art, starting at the age of 18, and continued to collect and work as an art dealer in Berlin in the 1920s. In the 1930s Felix Tikotin fled from the Nazis and hid his collection in the Netherlands. After the war, he decided that his collection should be taken to Israel, where in 1959 and with the help of Abba Hushi, who was the mayor of Haifa, The Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art was established. The Museum's collection comprises more than 8,000 items of art and crafts.