Offered by Mastromauro Japanese Art
A Japanese large boxwood honeycomb with numerous hexagonal cells that contain the larvae, some of which emerge from the holes, hanging from a persimmon tree branch surrounded by wasps with horn eyes controlling the brood.
Signed Tadakazu engraved on oval horn insert.
Meiji period 19th century
Sizes: 8 x 10 x 10 cm.
Condition report: Very Good condition