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Okimono-Style Netsuke: Traveler

2000.20.0005

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Artifact Identification Okimono-Style Netsuke: Traveler   (2000.20.0005)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Personal Artifacts
    2. :
  2. Personal Gear
    3. :
  3. Personal Carrying & Storage Gear
Artist/Maker Signed Ryukei. By Ryukei I (Hokyo Shinshisai), Tokyo school carver working in first quarter of 19th century.
Geographic Location
Period Edo Period (1603-1868)
Date 1800-1825
Culture Japanese

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Depth) 6.2 cm
Dimension 2 (Width) 5.3 cm
Dimension 3 (Height) 5 cm
Weight 61 g
Measuring Remarks N/A
Materials Animal--Tooth--Ivory, Plant--Boxwood, Plant--Wood
Manufacturing Processes Carved, Inlaying

Research Remarks

Description Under Review
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 Fred A. Freund Collection
Reproduction No

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