Strauss & co - 18 March 2019, Cape Town

THE DR JR AND MARY STRONG COLLECTION OF CHINESE AND JAPANESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART LOTS 121–167 39 127 A wood netsuke of a tiger, 19th century seated, its head turned back to the left as it snarls, its tail passing around the left flank forming the himotoshi , the body stripes heightened with staining, the pupils inlaid, signed in a long oval reserve, Mitsunobu , 3,2 cm high R  –   128 A wood netsuke of a tiger, 19th century seated, its head turned back to the left and its tail sweeping over the back, the pupils inlaid, the wood of mid-brown patina, 3 cm high R  –   129 A wood netsuke of a hare, 19th century seated, facing ahead, its ears folded back, mid-brown patina, 2,4 cm high R  –   130 A wood netsuke of the ‘Three Wise Monkeys’ (Sambiki Saru), 19th century seated with their backs to each other, their feet forming the himotoshi , the pupils inlaid, the wood dark stained, signed Ikko, Nagoya, 3,8 cm high R  –   131 A wood netsuke of a monkey, 19th century seated, grooming its left knee, with inlaid eyes, pale-brown patina, 3 cm high R  –   132 A wood netsuke of a badger late 18th/early 19th century seated on its enlarged drum-shaped scrotum, mid-brown fine patina, 3,5 cm high R  –   133 A wood and shibayama manju netsuke, late 19th century in the form of a lenticular round case, the cover carved with a house in a landscape, the moon, birds and shoji inlaid with mother-of-pearl, the reverse with foliate motifs, with mid- brown patina, 3,5 cm diameter R  –   127 128 129 130 131 132 133