A large boxwood netsuke of a monkey in a chestnut. First half 19th centuryEmerging from a chestnut, head and forepaws outside of the fruit, the chestnut skin realistically rendered with vertical lines, the base with skin pimples in ukibori. The eye pupils of bone. Height 3.4 cmProvenienzThrough Emil Damm ?, Munich Coll. no. 975 (printed and handwritten)A large boxwood netsuke of a monkey in a chestnut. First half 19th centuryEmerging from a chestnut, head and forepaws outside of the fruit, the chestnut skin realistically rendered with vertical lines, the base with skin pimples in ukibori. The eye pupils of bone. Height 3.4 cm