Japanese wooden netsuke of a wasp eating a pear

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Wooden netsuke. A wasp eating a pear. Ikkyū (Japanese). Wood, height 4 cm. Japanese.

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Accession Number: MAR.O.141-1912
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 50
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: norman; andrew
Image height: 805 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 105.44kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2010:01:27 15:45:58

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carved eating Fitz_AA food fruits Ikkyu insects Japanese katabori netsuke pears wasps

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