Description:
Ivory Netsuke of a Goddess, Japan, 19th century, dressed in a robe with flowing ribbons, holding her right hand near her mouth and something (now lost) in her left, signed "Masayuki" to base with incised details, ht. 1 5/8 in.
Estimate $700-900
an old breakage on her left hand.
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