Netsuke
- Museum number:
- 9-7512
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090007512
- Alternate number:
- 3-67 (original number), 4-183 (original number), and 5-148 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2384
- Description:
- Netsuke in old ivory, of Chinese school. The teacher with abacus-- this is Pan Chao, who is at the table, China's most distinguished woman of letters, and her brother P'an Ku, the court historiographer. P'an Ku stands next to P'an Chao, with brush in hand.
- 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:
- Ivory (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 2.8 centimeters
- Comment:
- donor base/stand marked with catalog number LW 2015-10-29 Per Robeson Accession File: Netsuke in old ivory, of Chinese school. The teacher with abacus-- this is Pan Chao, who is at the table, China's most distinguished woman of letters, and her brother P'an Ku, the court historiographer. P'an Ku stands next to P'an Chao, with brush in hand. P'an Chao lived from 32 to 102 AD. Her brother P'an Ku was cast into prison for some political involvement, and died there. P'an Chao set to work to revise and publish his writings. The result was the book of Han. She was made mistress of poetry, eloquence and history, for the Empress. A work from Pan Chao's own pen, which obtained celebrity was entitle "Lessons for the Female Sex." Her brother was even more distinguished, certainly more forceful. He was the most famous of the Chinese agents in the far West. He was more a man of action than a scholar. He was the leading official on the Central Asiatic edges of the empire. The little boarder states were often recalcitrant, and his life was one of fairly constant fighting. He made Chinese power feared in lands that are now Russian and his agents reached the shores of the Persian Gulf. His exploits were equal to those of the greatest Roman generals.
- Loans:
- S1968-1969 #4: University of California, Berkeley (July 2, 1968–May 3, 1973)
- Legacy documentation:
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