Netsuke modelled as foreigner with kirin

19th century

Japanese

Ivory

3 1/4 x 1 1/16 x 1 in. (8.26 x 2.7 x 2.54 cm)

Duncan MacTavish Fuller Memorial Collection

33.489

Photo: Paul Macapia

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Legends, Tales, Poetry: Visual Narrative in Japanese Art, December 22, 2012 - July 21, 2013

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Refined Harmony: Decorative Arts from the Edo Period, March 7, 2003 - March 23, 2004

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Japan Envisions the West: 16th - 19th Century Japanese Art from the Kobe City Museum, October 7, 2007 - January 8, 2008

Published ReferencesFuller, Richard E., Japanese Art in the Seattle Art Museum: An Historical Sketch, Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1960 ("Presented in commemoration of the Hundredth Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between Japan and the United States of America"), no. 188

Shirahara, Yukik, Japan Envisions the West: 16th - 19th Century Japanese Art from the Kobe City Museum, Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 2007, pl. 112b, p. 151

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