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netsuke
Unknown
(Carver)
Chinese boy lying on a fan, wood. Unsigned.
History note: Unknown before donor
Given by Mrs Margaret G. Fink
Height: 3.6 cm
Length: 5.5 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given
(1993-10-11)
by
Fink, Margaret, G.
18th century
1700
CE
-
1800
CE
Accession number: O.5-1993
Primary reference Number: 193225
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"netsuke"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/193225 Accessed: 2022-07-01 14:57:06
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|title=netsuke
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2022-07-01 14:57:06|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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