Lot 1099 D‡α

A good, partly stained ivory netsuke of a seated shishi dancer. Early 19th century

Seated and wearing trousers and a jacket with a star pattern, the boy is about to lift a large shishi mask above his head, the mask cloth with an attached bushy tail and engraved with hair tufts. One eye pupil of the mask of black horn.
Height 4.1 cm