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Netsuke: Clown Playing with a Child

2011.02.0050

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Artifact Identification Netsuke: Clown Playing with a Child   (2011.02.0050)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Personal Artifacts
    2. :
  2. Personal Gear
    3. :
  3. Personal Carrying & Storage Gear
Artist/Maker Unknown
Geographic Location
Period Mid-Meiji Period
Date N/A
Culture Japanese
Location Not on Exhibit

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Height) 7 cm
Dimension 2 (Diameter) 5.2 cm
Dimension 3 (Height) 2.4 cm
Weight 54 g
Measuring Remarks Under Review
Materials Animal--Tooth--Ivory, Plant--Hemp
Manufacturing Processes Carved, Twisting

Research Remarks

Description N/A
Published Description N/A
Bibliography

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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