Lot 609 D‡α

An Edo school ivory netsuke of a karako playing horse riding with Fukurokuju. Second 19th century

Fukurokuju kneels bent forward, his hands resting on the tip of his long beard, while a boy sits on his back and holds a piece of cloth around the god’s high cranium as if it were a horse’s rein.
Height 3.8 cm