A JAPANESE BOXWOOD NETSUKE OF A RAT

A JAPANESE BOXWOOD NETSUKE OF A RAT, SIGNED SUZUKI MASAKATSU, ISE, C1839-1899 3cm hThere are examples by the artist in both the British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum and several have been sold at auction recently, see Bonhams for a boxwood netsuke of two puppies and a toad in ivory from a Private European Collection, 8 May 2016, lots 48 and 71cm and a boxwood netsuke of aquatic creatures from The Harriet Szechenyi Sale of Japanese Art, 8 November 1011, lot 244.