Netsuke
- Museum number:
- 9-7644
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090007644
- Alternate number:
- 5-185 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2384
- Description:
- Netsuke: pigeon, lacquered in red and gold. His tail is a whistle. Dimensions: Height: 1.75 inches, Length: 1.5 inches, Width: 1 inch
- Donor:
- Estate of Geraldine C. and Kernan Robson
- Collection place:
- Japan
- Culture or time period:
- Japanese
- Collector:
- Geraldine C. Robson
- Collection date:
- before 1940
- Materials:
- Lacquer (coating) and Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Netsukes
- Function:
- 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
- Accession date:
- 1968
- Context of use:
- Toggle to be attached to the end of a cord and thrust through the sash of a kimono for the support of a purse, pouch or lacquer box.
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- height 2.3 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1975-1976 #83: Chancellor's House (May 19, 1976–July 10, 1990)
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- Legacy documentation:
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- 3D:
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