Netsuke
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Netsuke were a functional feature on traditional Japanese clothing. I don't understand the particulars, but the clothing would for some reason have small cords to hold things in place and to prevent the cord from shifting these small ivory carved objects were threaded onto the cord and kept things just right. They have two holes for the cord to pass through.
The fawn was purchased by my mother on a trip to Los Angeles. She was a wood carver and wished to carve some netsuke (modern conventions make it necessary to use bone or tagua nuts). She paid $300 dollars. About 10 years ago the Antique Roadshow came to town, so I took it in to see if she had been had. The experts said that it was the best of the three pieces (I gave the newet and least interesting from a collector's standpoint to my sister). The fawn was made in the 19th century and was worth about $300 dollars, which goes to show that there are honest dealers out there.
The second is a horse. It is a later piece imitating an earlier, more primitve style and worth about $25.
They seem like just the thing that would fit in a dollhouse as stauary!
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