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Monk ringing bell
Netsuke: katabori: Monk ringing bell. Wood, red lacquer with green and gilt decoration, carved and stained. Figure of a Buddhist priest, bald, clad in a robe and barefoot holding his padded mallet with both hands and banging on a large mokogyo. The red lacquer bell has two fishes' heads protruding from either side, each decorated with green and gilt with traces of red on the nose and eyebrows, their open jaws clasping a gilt ball. The fishes' scales are decorated in red lacquer and gilt. Himotoshi in the flat wooden base.
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: 3.4 cm
Width: 4.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Edo Period (1615-1868)
Circa
1800
-
1868
Decoration
composed of
lacquer
( red and green)
gilt
Parts
Carving : Wood, red lacquer with green and gilt decoration, carved and stained
Accession number: O.91-1991
Primary reference Number: 22462
Old object number: JAPWA/785
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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