Ivory okimono
Japanese, late Meiji
of a male traveller standing resting and smiling as he rubs his face with right hand and carries a straw hat in his left, two packages hang over his right shoulder and a katana in his belt, a plant grows at his feet, signed 'Sosho' on inset red plaque, with stand
19cm high
and a Japanese, late Meiji, ivory okimono of a mother dressed in long robe and obi etched with fan shaped motifs and holding a peach in her left hand which she offers to her infant son carried on her right shoulder, signed on oval base 'Gyokusan' on red inset plaque, 17cm high