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Rare Wood Netsuke of a Monkey with Peach by Naito Toyomasa

Seated hugging the large fruit and holding its branch with one paw. The even hair work is reminiscent of that on the master’s hares. The animal’s eyes are inlaid with dark horn pupils, unusual for the artist, and the teeth are rendered in ivory or bone. The leaf of the peach has ukibori veins

Evenly and sharply signed. Tamba.  Circa 1830

Height: 3.5 cm

MR3869

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