Lot 1025 D ‡ α

An ivory netsuke of an oni on a skull. Late 18th/early 19th century

Seated hirsute on top of a skull with a tobacco pouch with netsuke in his left hand and a now missing pipe in his right. The characters on the pouch read hi yô shin (beware of fire). The eye pupils and the button at the belt of black horn.
Height 4.7 cm