TWO JAPANESE LACQUERED WOOD NETSUKE EDO OR MEIJI, 19TH CENTURY The taller one depicting a Shinto priest carrying a large mokugyo bell around his neck, and with a beater in one hand; the other netsuke carved as a kneeling man with a red angular coat, both with details in red lacquer and gilt; 5.3cm and 3.7cm respectively. (2) Provenance: a private Irish collection, Dublin. The priest netsuke previously in the collection of T Volkner, and illustrated and discussed in his book `The Animal in Far Eastern Art, and especially in the art of the Japanese netsuke`, p118, no.66. PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE.