A GROUP OF FOUR JAPANESE CARVINGS, 19TH CENTURY

the first a wood netsuke depicting an old man bent over a puppy, a small boy standing to one side, good patina, signed on an inlaid red lacquer tablet Bairyu (Tokoku); together with a wood study of a fisherman standing with a string of fish hanging down his back, signed in a circular reserve; together with an ivory netsuke of a man and boy clambering over a large sack, signed Ryugyoku; and an ivory study of a bearded sage holding a long stemmed vessel in his right hand, unsigned