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4.8 x 4.3 x 2.5 cm (24 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: Circa 20th Century
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art
Description: The netsuke, literally meaning root (ne) and attached or hung (tsuke) is a clothing fastener which is situated on the upper end of the kimono sash (obi)...

4.5 x 3.5 x 3 cm (21 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art
Description: The netsuke, literally meaning root (ne) and attached or hung (tsuke) is a clothing fastener which is situated on the upper end of the kimono sash (obi)...

9.8 x 6.5 x 5.4 cm (116 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art

6.3 x 5.7 x 4.8 cm (47 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: 19th Century
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art

8.5 x 7.5 x 6.5 cm (95 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: c. 1860
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art

15.3 x 6.5 x 3.5 cm (88 g)

Location: Asia, East: China
Period: Late Qing Dynasty; Early 20th Century
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art
Description: Brush rests were among the coveted items made for the Chinese scholar's desk. This type of brush rest, typically constrf the "four treasures" (inkstone, ink, brush, and paper) of a scholar's study became an appreciated facet of interior design during the Song Dynasty (960-1279)...

10 x 8.7 x 6.5 cm (124 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: Showa Period; Circa late 1920s
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art

6.9 x 4.7 x 4 cm (19 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: Late Meiji Period
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art

6.3 x 3.2 x 3 cm (129 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: Late Meiji Period
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art
Description: This Japanese okimono is of Daruma. He is commonly considered to be the founder of Chan (Zen) Buddhism and is credited with introducing the Chan philosophy to China...

27 x 8.8 x 5.3 cm (177 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: Meiji Period; 19th Century
Classification/Nomenclature: Furnishings : Household Accessories : Storage & Display Accessories

21.5 x 9 x 3.5 cm (75 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: Meijji Period; 19th century
Classification/Nomenclature: Furnishings : Household Accessories : Storage & Display Accessories

13 x 7 x 1.8 cm (34 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: Meiji Period
Classification/Nomenclature: Furnishings : Household Accessories : Storage & Display Accessories

12.3 x 7 x 1.1 cm (34 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: Meiji Period
Classification/Nomenclature: Furnishings : Household Accessories : Storage & Display Accessories

9 x 7.3 x 6 cm (114 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art

9.7 x 7 x 5.5 cm (107 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art

9.4 x 8 x 6.1 cm (109 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art

18 x 8 x 7 cm (162 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: Late 19th century
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art
Description: This Japanese boxwood okimono of a street musician raising drumsticks to play on a raised and seated tanuki...

6 x cm (1 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: Late 19th century
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art
Description: This is the drum stick Japanese boxwood okimono of a street musician raising drumsticks to play on a raised and seated tanuki...

5.9 x cm (1 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: Late 19th century
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art
Description: This is the drum stick Japanese boxwood okimono of a street musician raising drumsticks to play on a raised and seated tanuki...

22 x 7.4 x 5 cm (124 g)

Location: Asia, East: China
Period: Late 19th century
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art

7.5 x 5 x 3.4 cm (81 g)

Location: Asia, East: China
Period: Late 19th century
Classification/Nomenclature: Furnishings : Furniture : Support Furniture

19.5 x 10.4 x 8.7 cm (344 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: Late Meiji Period; Circa 1910
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art
Description: This is a Japanese boxwood okimono of a monkey trainer, his monkey, and a boy. Monkey training is a form of entertainment that is frequently featured in Japanese art from the Edo period to the 20th century...

19.7 x 8.5 x 7.5 cm (109 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: Edo Period
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art

12.5 x 6.3 x 6.3 cm (101 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: Edo Period
Classification/Nomenclature: Furnishings : Furniture : Support Furniture

12.8 x 7.8 x 5.3 cm (109 g)

Location: Asia, East: Japan
Period: Late 18th - Early 19th Century
Classification/Nomenclature: Communication Artifacts : Art
Description: This is a Japanese okimono of two farmers, both possessing farming equipment. The okimono, meaning “object of display,” is a Japanese model or free-standing figure that developed from the smaller netsukes, which were clothing fasteners that appeared as three-dimensional carved figures or flattened and engraved buttons or boxes...