Ivory, delicately carved in detail with beautiful, partly reddish-gold-yellow colouring. Farmer wearing a jacket and rush skirt with a cloth wrapped around the head, is crawling across the so-called Takaragai. In its central slit another man is hiding from him, whose scared face protrudes from the centre of the rolled in halves. This depiction has an erotic connotation. L.4cm. Condition A. Please note that objects made of ivory, rhinoceros horn and turtle shell, due to Cites regulations can only be sold within the European Community. At present the export in third countries is prohibited.