Set of Four Traditional Japanese Netsuke

Set of Four Traditional Japanese Netsuke  is a set of four small objects realized in  Japan  in the first decades of the  XX Century .

Various dimensions (5 cm x 2 cm x 3 cm; 3 cm x 3 cm x 4.5 cm; 2 cm x 2 cm x 3.5; 2.5 cm x 2 cm x 3.5 cm). 

Ivory.

All the small sculptures are in perfect conditions. 

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Very beautiful set of four traditional Japanese Netsuke hand-made in Asia in the first years of the XX Century. They represents stylized animals (a frog with a turtle, a mouse), children and a standing figure with a traditional headwear. Netsuke are a traditional miniature sculptures invented in the XVII Century in Japan with a practical function:; indeed to store their personal belongings, Japanese people used to place such objects in containers. Netsuke could be realized in different materials and forms and are always miniaturized.