A Very Fine and Unusual Carved Red Lacquer Netsuke

A Very Fine and Unusual Carved Red Lacquer Netsuke 
The reverse lacquered black 
Signed: Hosai 
Lacquer 
Japan
Circa 1890 

Size: 4.7cm high - 1⅔ ins high 

Provenance: 
W.L. Behrens collection (Joly cat. no. 190, ill. on pg. IV) 
Albert Brockhaus collection 
Sold Christies, London 25th November 1980, lot 183 
Ex Private collection 
A Very Fine and Unusual Carved Red Lacquer Netsuke 
The reverse lacquered black 
Signed: Hosai 
Lacquer 
Japan
Circa 1890 

Size: 4.7cm high - 1⅔ ins high 
W.L. Behrens collection (Joly cat. no. 190, ill. on pg. IV) 
Albert Brockhaus collection 
Sold Christies, London 25th November 1980, lot 183 
Ex Private collection

A Very Fine and Unusual Carved Red Lacquer Netsuke

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