netsuke
- Museum number
- F.1078
- Description
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Netsuke. Dried salmon. Made of lacquered wood, with fish skin and mother-of-pearl.
- Production date
- Early 18thC
- Dimensions
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Width: 11 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Dried salmon
Unsigned, style of Ogawa Haritsu Lacquered wood, fish skin, mother-of -pearl and ivory, 1700s
The underside shows European leteeres.
(Label copy, 2017)
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This uncommon netsuke subject realistically represents a dried salmon by using actual fish skin for the surface. Details such as the fin, tail and rope are highlighted with gold lacquer and the cut portion is covered with a thin strip of mother-of-pearl over a red painted ground so as to reveal the dried flesh transparently. The back is lacquered with a design of randomly scattered Latin letters, which appeared as a curiosity to the Japanese. (NT 2015)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2013 - , BM Japanese Galleries, ‘Japan from Prehistory to the Present’.
- Acquisition date
- 1897
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- F.1078