**SOLD** Wood Netsuke of a Rat Grooming Itself, by Ichimin

Wood Netsuke of a Rat Grooming Itself by Ichimin

Seated upright, gripping its tail with two paws and twisting in order to scratch the fur beneath its left foreleg.The eye pupils are inlays of dark horn

Signed; ichimin to. Nagoya, circa 1850

Height: 3.4 cm

Information:

An almost identical netsuke is illustrated in Moss, ‘Japanese Netsuke: Serious Art’, no. 36. 

MR4915