A Very Fine and Unusual Carved Red Lacquer Netsuke

A Very Fine and Unusual Carved Red Lacquer Netsuke
The reverse lacquered black
Signed: Hosai
Lacquer
Japan
Circa 1890

Size: 4.7cm high - 1? ins high

Provenance:
W.L. Behrens collection (Joly cat. no. 190, ill. on pg. IV)
Albert Brockhaus collection
Sold Christies, London 25th November 1980, lot 183
Ex Private collection