Japan. Edo period. 18th/19th c. Ivory with expressively carved, reddish colored details. The impressive animal with raised head sitting on a base. Height 7.8cm, width 5cm. Condition B. Hole of the nerve channel on the forehead of the animal, age cracks.
Literature: -Cf. Davey, Neil K.: Netsuke, 1982, p. 327, ill. 998, a very similar model.
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.