Boxwood, very delicately carved, engraved, with some dark accentuating. The mythical creatures, mother and child. The mother with human upper body and unusally naturalistic bulging breast with nipple, the child grabbing a breast with both hands. W. 4.1cm. Signed: Hosen. Condition A.
Provenance: -Exhibited at the Netsuke-Convention London in 2013 at the Japanese embassy from 4 April to 31 May, cf. cat. no. 106 in 'In a Nutshell', there dated to the late 18th century, and MCI p. 195 without information.