An ivory okimono group of a family of chickens


The cockerel by Ryusai, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryNaturalistically carved, consisting of one cockerel, 13.5cm (5¼in) high; one hen, 7cm (2¾in) high and four newly-hatched chicks, one holding a worm in its beak, each approx., 2.5cm (1in) high, the cockerel and the hen's eyes double inlaid in pale amber with horn pupils, the four chicks' eyes of dark horn, their plumage intricately rendered; the cockerel signed on the underside Ryusai. (6).