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Sashi Netsuke: Nio, Protector of Buddhist Temples

2005.11.0009

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Artifact Identification Sashi Netsuke: Nio, Protector of Buddhist Temples   (2005.11.0009)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Personal Artifacts
    2. :
  2. Personal Gear
    3. :
  3. Personal Carrying & Storage Gear
Artist/Maker Unknown
Geographic Location
Period Late Edo Period
Date 18th Century
Culture Japanese

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Height) 13 cm
Dimension 2 (Width) 5 cm
Dimension 3 (Depth) 3 cm
Weight 47 g
Measuring Remarks N/A
Materials Plant--Boxwood, Plant--Wood, Animal--Tooth--Ivory?, Animal--Horn
Manufacturing Processes Carved

Research Remarks

Description Under Review
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 Fred A. Freund Collection
Reproduction No

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