A JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE EDO OR MEIJI, 19TH CENTURY Modelled as a boy resting on a large drum, the child depicted wearing a simple apron decorated with scrolls, the sides of the drum carved to suggest the wood grain, the surface with a deep lustrous patina, signed Hokuhide / Hokushu underneath, 4cm. Provenance: an English private collection, Somerset, purchased in Japan.