Ivory netsuke depicting a ghostly woman, her hair sparse, her back arched and her arms forward, emerging from a skull abandoned on the ground, a cloud motif incised on her dress, signed in a red lacquer cartouche below Ryuko 龍古. Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912) H. 5.4 cm; W. 2.5 cm; Weight 19.5 g