Project Description

Boxwood Tonkotsu Carved as a Takotsubo

The container in the form of an octopus trap, the cover carved as the cephalopod, its head forming a knop and two tentacles encircling the himotoshi. The eye pupils are of buffalo horn

Signed on a bone tablet. Circa 1880

Height 8.7cm

MR4150

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