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Flowers
Netsuke: kagamibuta: flowers. Ivory bowl with metal disc and eyelet held together by a brown shoelace. Circular plain base with central himotoshi. Shibuichi disc cast in high relief and tooled in intricate detail with two blooming flowers set side by side; the whole disc is covered in leaves at different stages of relief. Holes punched through from the front are jagged on the underside.
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger; the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
Height: 1.9 cm
Width: 4.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Edo Period (1615-1868)
19th Century
Circa
1800
-
1868
Disc
composed of
shibuichi
( a pale grey alloy of silver)
Bowl
composed of
ivory
Accession number: O.44-1991
Primary reference Number: 22235
Old object number: JAPWA/765
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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