The Collection D'Ennery's interest in Oriental items was very much of its time : many Impressionist artists were interested in both by the different visual conventions found in Japanese prints and by their subject matter. The collection mainly consists of works of art, both Chinese and Japanese, ranging from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. You can also discover the furniture, lacquerwork, ceramics and bronzes, with many delightful carvings of animal and human forms. Show cases with mother-of-pearl inlays contain many hundreds of netsuke, the elaborately carved toggles made of bone, wood or ivory, worn with traditional Japanese dress. These are always miniature in scale, carved in the form of insects, plants and animals, or occasionally figures from literary sources.