Ivory netsuke of a rat coiled up into a ball

An image of Netsuke. A rat coiled up into a ball. The eyes are inlaid with glass. Ivory, circa 1980.

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Netsuke. A rat coiled up into a ball. The eyes are inlaid with glass. Ivory, circa 1980.

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Accession Number: O.179-2008
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 100
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Photographer name: Image Library; Fitzwilliam Museum
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 952 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.3 (Windows)
Filesize: 124.54kB
Exposure time: 1/30
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2000:01:04 03:00:07

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20th Century animal animals carved Fitz_AA ivory Japanese netsuke rat tail rat's tail rats rodent

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