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Netsuke and Inro: Seated Happy Buddha

2011.02.0032

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Artifact Identification Netsuke and Inro: Seated Happy Buddha   (2011.02.0032)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Personal Artifacts
    2. :
  2. Personal Gear
    3. :
  3. Personal Carrying & Storage Gear
Artist/Maker Unknown
Geographic Location
Period Mid Mei-Ji Period
Date N/A
Culture Japanese
Location Not on Exhibit

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Length) 25.5 cm
Dimension 2 (Width) 5.0 cm
Dimension 3 (Width) 4.5 cm
Weight 51 g
Measuring Remarks Under Review
Materials Animal--Tooth--Ivory, Textile, Varnish--Lacquer, Pigment, Plant--Wood
Manufacturing Processes Carved, Cutting, Drilling, Engraving, Inserting, Joining, Lacquering, Painting, Ropemaking, Twisting

Research Remarks

Description N/A
Published Description N/A
Bibliography

Guth, Christine. Art of Edo Japan: The Artist and the City, 1615-1868. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996.

Irvine, Gregory, Axel Rüger, Hiroko Yokomizo, Tayfun Belgin, John House, and Kris Schiermeier. Japonisme and the Rise of the Modern Art Movement: The Arts of the Meiji Period: The Khalili Collection. London: Thames & Hudson, 2013.

Jahss, Melvin, and Betty Jahss. Inro and other miniature forms of Japanese Lacquer Art. Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 1971.

Okada, Barbra Teri. A Sprinkling of Gold: The Lacquer Box Collection of Elaine Ehrenkranz. Newark: The Newark Museum, 1983.

Okada, Barbra Teri., and Mary Gardner Neill. Real and Imaginary Beings: The Netsuke Collection of Joseph and Edith Kurstin. Yale University Art Gallery, 1980.

Vos, F., Jan Dees, Frits Scholten, Oliver Impey, Malcolm Fairley, E.A. Wrangham, and Roger Keyes. Meiji, Japanese art in transition: ceramics, cloisonné, lacquer, prints, illustrated books, drawings and paintings from the Meiji period (1868-1912). Edited by Robert Schaap. ’s-Gravenhage: Haags Gemeentemuseum, 1987.

Artifact History

Credit Line/Dedication N/A
Reproduction N/A

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