Netsuke in deer horn, Japan, EDO era

Expertized by Cabinet Thierry Portier : Expertise and counsel office specialized in Asian arts. Its mission is to identify, authenticate and value art objets from Eastern Asia. Thierry Portier is Expert at The Court of Appeal of Paris, of the plenary assembly of insurance compagnies and with domains (selling of the state's properties) and of the "Crédit Municipal de Paris" (public credit establishement). Member of The Trade Union of Professional Experts in Art Work ("Syndicat des Experts Professionnels en Œuvres d'Art"), of the French-Japanese Association, the foundation Urasanke Konishiwan, and the foundation for the teaching of the tea ceremony.
Edo : (1603 – 1868). Sometimes refered as Tokugawa period, is the period of the Tokugawa shogunate.The period came to an end with the Meiji Restoration in 1868. The period is named after the name of the capital of the shogunate, nowdays Tokyo