A wooden tonkotsu with insects

Description:

Japan, signed Tôzan, 19th cent.
7,5 x 9,2 x 4,3 cm
Dark brown wood with various inlays of insects such as a dragonfly, flies, butterfly and a snail, in gold lacquer reedsand flowering shrubs. Signed in a mother-of-pearl reserve.
From an old North German private collection, acquired between 1992 and 1994, this Tonkotsu according to records acquired in 1993 at Dorotheum Vienna - Minim. rep., minor traces of age