Six wood netsuke


Edo period (1615-1868), 18th to 19th centuryComprising: a tall figure of a Chinese general holding his beard, unsigned, 10.2cm (4in) high; a peddler with a creature on his box of wares, a boy at his side, unsigned, 6cm (2 3/8in) high; a partly lacquered priest beating a large mokugyo (wooden gong), unsigned, 5.7cm (2¼in) high; another of a man holding a closed fan, unsigned, 5.1cm (2in) high; a helmet maker polishing a helmet bowl, unsigned, 3.5cm (1 3/8in) high; and a kabuto (helmet) of 16-plate sujibachi type, inscribed Hidari Issan, 4.8cm (1 7/8in) wide. (6).