| Antique
Japanese Carved Netsuke Little
Mouse
Pretty Up Tail
Signature: Shogyoku. Circa: early 20th
Century
H 1.5 in.(4cm), W 1.25 in.(3cm), D 1 in.(2.5cm)
Condition: excellent! Sumptuously
carved and highly polished netsuke in tactile design, featuring a clever little
mouse grooming his curvy tail; as if in search of an admirer, his head turned
and ears quivered back in the alert. A well positioned small oval shaped opening
on the side, leading to a larger himotoshi in the belly, signed on the right foot:
Shogyoku.
Private
Collection
|