netsuke
- Museum number
- HG.440
- Description
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Netsuke. Hare with loquats. Made of ivory, with details inlaid in dark horn. Signed.
- Production date
- Late 18thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 3.50 centimetres
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Width: 4 centimetres
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Depth: 2 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
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Hare with loquats
Signed Okatomo
Ivory, late 1700s
(Label copy, 2017)
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As one of the twelve animals of a zodiacal cycle based on the Chinese system, hares were popular netsuke forms. They might relate either to the current year or the birth year of the owner. (NT 2015)
- Location
- On display (G93/dc21)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2012 Nov 30 - 2013 Apr 4, Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle, ‘Treasures of The World's Cultures’
2015 Oct-, BM Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from prehistory to the present'
- Acquisition date
- 1978-1984
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- HG.440