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A fine Kyoto school ivory netsuke of a hungry wolf. Late 18th/early 19th century Seated on his hind legs, with laid-back ears and wide-open eyes, the right forepaw resting on a hamaguri. The eye pupils of dark horn. Inscribed Okatomo in a rectangular reserve. Chipped and restored. Height 3.4 cm Private collection, Lower Saxony, Germany Compare a study of the same motive in wood in: Japanese Works of Art from the Collection of the Late Charles A. Greenfield, Part III, Sotheby's New York, 18.9.1998, lot 53.