NETSUKE: SIX GOURDS.
Japan. Meiji period. Ca. 1900.

Ivory; very delicately carved and polished. Group of six various large pumpkin bottles with braided laces for closing and transportation; three others endowed similarly; two with corrosion spots; one without clasp. L.4.8cm. Signed: Mitsuhiro; later school work. Condition A/B.

Provenance:
-Old collection no. 518.

Please note that objects made of ivory; rhinoceros horn and turtle shell; due to Cites regulations can only be sold within the European Community. At present the export in third countries is prohibited.
Art trade; Van Ham.