A bamboo and ebony netsuke of mushrooms with a snail and antsBy Jikan Ganbun, Kyoto and Edo, late 19th centuryA large worm-eaten mushroom over which a snail in pale horn and pewter slides, overlapping a smaller ebony fungus applied with two gilt-metal ants, signed Ganbun saku (made by Ganbun) with a kao. 4.2cm (1 5/8in).注脚竹・黒檀彫根付　茸に蝸牛と蟻　銘 「眼文作（花押）」　19世紀後期Published:Earle, Huthart, p.308, no.278.Burditt, ICLS, p.39, fig.4.