Netsuke

9024

From: Japan

Curatorial Section: Asian

Native Name Netsuke
Object Number 9024
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Japanese
Provenience Japan
Date Made 18th Century - 1891
Section Asian
Materials Ivory
Technique Carved
Iconography Boy | Fish
Description

Netsuke. Ivory. Boy holding a big fish, probably the one-inch boy (Issun-bōshi 一寸法師). One of his feet steps on the fish tail. Unsigned.

Credit Line Gift of Thomas Hockley, 1891

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