A netsuke of a group of turtles made of wood

Description:

Japan, signed Tadakazu (Chûichi), around 1900
L. 5,2/ H. 4,7 cm
Four smaller animals climb on top of each other on a horizontal shield crest, the pupils inlaid in black glass, one himotôshiÖopening set in tortoiseshell, the border of the other opening missing.
From an old East German private collection, collected before 1980 - Slightly chipped