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Toolmaker
Netsuke: katabori: Toolmaker. Boxwood, carved and stained. Seated figure of a toolmaker with a smiley, wrinkled face, sharpening the teeth of a saw which he steadies with one foot. Himotoshi on the underside of his leg alongside the mark.
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: 2.4 cm
Width: 3.7 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: Bequeathed
(1950)
by
Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Edo Period (1615-1868)
Circa
1800
-
1868
Carving : Boxwood, carved, stained
Staining
Accession number: O.63-1991
Primary reference Number: 22344
Old object number: JAPWA/733
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Toolmaker"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/22344 Accessed: 2022-06-29 22:29:51
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