Gaunt wolf seated, ribs showing, tail drawn in between its haunches, between its front paws holding down a frightened little monkey. Lying on its back, the monkey is clinging to the wolf's jaw with its right hand, and with its left at the latter's right front leg. Ivory, very finely carved, fur very delicately engraved and stained dark. Partly rubbed, the ivory softly polished and patinated. The wolf's pupils are minutely inlaid in dark horn. Signed on a rectangular reserve under the left hind paw: Tomotada. MCI p. 917, illustrates four wolves, each with prey. L.5,2cm. Condition A.
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