A large and elaborate Tokyo School ivory sculptural group by Hokei, Meiji period

an old man and his two grandsons seated on an improvised seat made from a plank laid between a barrel and a small bench, the three enraptured by the reaction of the two chicks and a small monkey at their feet, the last tethered to one leg of the bench, all set on an undulating wood base, signed on the barrel Hokei