A small boar-tusk netsuke with an eagle and pine
By Gyokuo, Iwami Province, 19th centuryDelicately engraved in kebori with a bird of prey flying over a pine branch, a haiku poem in two lines above a clump of grasses on the reverse; signed Seisei shun'yo Chikurindo Gyokuo (Chikurindo Gyokuo in springtime). 8.5cm (3 3/8in).
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猪牙彫根付 松に鷲 銘 「生々春陽竹林堂玉翁」 19世紀Published: Earle, Huthart, p.390, no.364.