Japanese ivory netsuke of an elephant

An image of Netsuke. Ivory and semi precious stones, an elephant of a Shibayama type, on a stand in full ceremonial decoration with a large blanket beautifully embroidered of crane and peonies also chains of jewel strung from the blanket. Himotoshi ring in Mother of pearl. 1870-1900. Japanese.

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Netsuke. Ivory and semi precious stones, an elephant of a Shibayama type, on a stand in full ceremonial decoration with a large blanket beautifully embroidered of crane and peonies also chains of jewel strung from the blanket. Himotoshi ring in Mother of pearl. 1870-1900. Japanese.

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Accession Number: O.266-2008
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: 810 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 536.32kB
Exposure time: 1/30
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2000:01:09 23:49:18

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19th Century abalone shell animal carved elephants Fitz_AA floral flowers gemstones himotoshi ivory Japanese mother of pearl netsuke Paeoniaceae paeony peonies peony precious stones semi-precious

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