A collection of fifteen ojime and four other items


Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryComprising: nine ojime of bone, carved with various subjects including tigers, Ebisu and masks, two signed; one of guri lacquer carved with chrysanthemum heads floating over a stream; two of metal, both in the form of skulls; one of glass; one of stag antler in the form of a skull; and two of wood, the first a rat on a shell signed Shun[..]; the second in the form of a skull; a miniature ivory carving of a skull with inlaid insects; a cloisonné-enamel netsuke of cylindrical form; and a copper water-dropper in the form of a pine cone. (19).