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Netsuke: kagamibuta. Ivory bowl with metal disc and eyelet. Circular bowl, plain with indented ridge around the top edge and traces of green staining to inner rim, central himotoshi. Shibuichi disc, cast and decorated in relief with a fly resting on top of a man's shaved head above the wrinkled brow, the face cut off at the nose. The man's hand is raised as if to swat the fly. Finely stranded hair and eyebrows in shakudo and copper, the man's eyeballs in shakudo and copper, and the fly's eye is applied with copper.
History note: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991.
Height: 1.8 cm
Width: 4.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Edo Period (1615-1868)
Circa
1800
-
1868
Metal Disc
composed of
metal
Applied Decoration
composed of
copper
Bowl
composed of
ivory
Bowl Inner Rim
Bowl Ridge
Decoration
Disc
Accession number: O.37-1991
Primary reference Number: 22146
Old object number: JAPWA/768
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Netsuke" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/22146 Accessed: 2024-04-19 23:48:46
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