A GROUP OF SIX JAPANESE CARVED WOOD NETSUKE

including a standing hotei, probably Edo period, the tallest 6cm high, a hotei with a bag and fan, signed, 4cm high, and a boxwood hotei in a bad, 4cm high (6)

Provenance: the hotei with a fan mentioned, Sotheby's, 20 June 2002, lot 548., the hotei in a bag, Christie's, 28 October 2004, lot 37, the group collectively were purchased from Zeeuws, 8/10/2020, lot 1206, 420 euros. Now the property of a deceased Estate from West Dorset.