Project Description

A Nagoya School Boxwood Netsuke of Two Rats

Hugging each other closely and with two front paws joined in an affecting composition. The incisors of one are of bone, and all the eyes are inlays of buffalo horn

While it is difficult to make a firm attribution, it seems to me that Ittan is probably the closest

Unsigned. Circa 1850

Width 3.1cm

MR4487