The Helen & Jack Mang Collection of Netsuke

Kyoto School, 18th century. The crouching figure with eyes inlaid in black, the design is unique for this "eater of bad dreams" and inco...

Late 18th century. Sitting with head raised on an oval base, a fine old patina on the ivory with deep color, well-worn. Unsigned. 2 3/8in (5.9cm). P

Late 18th century. Standing with head raised on a seal base, the single slender horn reaches down to his back and parallels his long bushy tail that

Mid 19th century. Sitting with head raised high and turned 180?, he has a very horse-like appearance with a lot of hair and a goat-like beard, the

Late 18th century. With two horns, crouching on an oval base with head raised, eyes inlaid in silver, the flames raised and well delineated, well-w

Asakusa school, Mid 19th century. On a Lotus leaf, the thin piece of ivory has been carved and stained to look like stag antler, and the ivory has

19th century. Reclining with its head turned to the left and its legs folded underneath, with three eyes and two horns on its head and on each flan

Late 19th century. Nursing her child, leaning on her right elbow while her hand supports the suckling baby, her left hand grasps the end of her tai

Early 19th century. With his gourd astride a Namazu (Earthquake Fish), its eyes inlaid in black, he kneels with his head raised and one eye closed

Late 18th century. Seated in mythical pose, with left front leg extended and resting on its foot, head turned to the right and resting on upturned

Mid 19th century. Rearing up on its hind legs with the front legs and body wrapped around a large tama, carved with bands of diaper patterns of wav

Early 20th century. Standing with feet firmly planted on an oval base, the left front resting on the sacred jewel, the stem of a plant, extends fro

Mid 19th century. The first, in ivory, seated with mouth open and all four legs wrapped around a large tama. 1 1/4in (3cm). The second, in wood cl

Mid 19th century. Seated on a rock with a long handled dipper held over the right shoulder and holding a bowl of sake with the left hand. The piec

Late 18th century. Seated with its legs folded and its head turned back while a small monkey climbs upon its back, the details are well-carved and t

Mid 19th century. Pod, leaf, and stem, the 4 seeds in the pod are loose, the wood of the leaf is well-polished, and there is an old break on one of

Mid 19th century. Three stems intertwined, one terminating in a curled leaf, another in a closed bud, and the third in a pod with 5 loose seeds, th

The first, mid 19th century, a lacquer manju of irregular shape, the front with gold hiramakie cherry blossoms and buds in several shades of gold,

The first, late 18th century, a wood Lotus pod, the thick curled stem provides the himotoshi, the fifteen seeds in the pod are loose, well-carved

Early 20th century. The first, an ivory sashi netsuke of an elongated bean inlaid with two ladybugs, irregularly stained. 5 5/8in (14.4cm). The sec