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LARGE NETSUKE in ivory and brown highlights,...

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LARGE NETSUKE in ivory and brown highlights, representing a recumbent buffalo with its calf lying beside it, licking its mother's cheek, a loin resting loosely on the latter's back, the eyes inlaid with brown horn, the hair carefully figured in brown. Signed Tomoharu in a cartouche on the belly of the animal. Japan, 19th century. AN IVORY BUFFALO SHAPED NETSUKE, JAPAN, MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY. LONG. 7,5 CM (2 15/16 IN.)