Lacquer Fighting Cocks

Fighting Cocks 

One bird appearing on each face in predominantly gold, silver and black takamakie, one bird with gold foil on its wings, over a roiro-kinpun ground

Unsigned. Circa 1800

8.4 cm across

Attached to a dark wood netsuke of a resting cockerel, signed Ippo. Circa 1850

3.4 cm across

MR2409