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Stained ivory netsuke of shishi with mokugyo by Okazaki Rensai

A somewhat hieratic shishi leans symmetrically on the gong with its front paws

Signed beneath the base: Ren. Tokyo, circa 1870

3.8 cm long

Information:

Compare with a similar Rensai netsuke illustrated with a line drawing in Meinertzhagen’s Card Index, p. 647

MR2586