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Daruma
Netsuke: katabori: Daruma. Wood, ivory, horn and metal. Rounded wood figure of Daruma, seated enveloped in his voluminous cloak, his face, inset in ivory, peeping out with dark features and inlaid horn eyes. Two inlaid ivory hands emerge from the folds of his cloak and he has an hossu (fly-switch) on his back; the handle is inlaid in metal (possibly silver), finely incised and inset with a rounded piece of ivory; the hair is finely carved with traces of red. There is a finely carved circular inset ivory himotoshi in the centre of his back. The rounded shape of Daruma's lower half resembles a mokugyo with two holes joined by a split.
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: 3.5 cm
Width: 3.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Edo Period (1615-1868)
19th Century
Circa
1800
-
1868
Parts
composed of
metal
( possibly silver)
horn
ivory
Figure
composed of
wood (plant material)
Decoration
Accession number: O.83-1991
Primary reference Number: 22426
Old object number: JAPWA/737
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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