Large wooden tonkotsu decorated with marine life: a large octopus between seaweed, and on the other side a flounder and different shells between seaweed, inlaid with many different materials, like mother of pearl, malachite and blood coral -defects-, marked with a seal, with an iron ojime and wooden netsuke of a puppy with a fish between its paws -one eye missing its soft coral inlay-, Japan, not signed, 19th century, provenance: collection of Roger Soame Jenyns (1904-1976)13 x 13 x 11