A JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE OF A RAT EDO/MEIJI PERIOD The chubby rodent depicted lying and tenderly clutching a large bean pod, the eyes inlaid and signed Ittei for Ittei of Nagoya, 4cm. Provenance: from the John and Helen Mang Collection. Cf. F Meinertzhagen, The Meinertzhagen Card Index on Netsuke in the Archives of the British Museum, Part A, p.252 for another netsuke of a rat with a bean pod by Ittei.