The bird sits clutching a pine branch with thinner side branches and is surrounded by its pine needles; he turns its head backwards to pick his feathers and raises the right wing slightly. The eye pupils of yellow and black horn. A slighty recessed and enlarged area to the underside of the piece with illegible remains of a signature. Dimensions Height 3.9 cm Medium Button2 Literature Cf. an almost identical Naito Toyomasa-signed piece in: Barry Davies, The Robert S. Huthart Collection of Non-Iwami-Netsuke, catalogue no. 120 Notes VAT: Margin scheme