Project Description

Wood Netsuke of a Dog with Fish Head, by Mitsumasa

The dog covers the fish head, looking up guiltily; a stolen prize perhaps. The animal’s eyes are double inlays of horn with dark pupils, the one visible eye of the fish is dark horn

Signed. Osaka. Second half 19th century

Length: 4.7 cm

MR3657

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