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Miniature meditating skeletons, snarling cats, eerie ghosts, and gods of fortune carved in ivory, wood, and horn adorned the sashes of Japanese men throughout the Edo period.
Minkō (Japanese, ca. 1735–1816). Netsuke of a Seated Hare, late 18th–early 19th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
This is a Japanese Edo era wooden Netsuke carving - a functional wardrobe accessory used to secure a traveler's purse to his kimono sash.
Traditional Japanese clothing such as Kimono and Kosode didn't have pockets. The (kimono pocket) solution became an art that would change Japan forever.
Until the 19th century all Japanese citizens wore a kimono, fastened by an obi sash. Small personal items such as purses, pipes or medicine containers were hung from the sash by silk cords. The cord was threaded through a bead, or ojime, then tucked behind the kimono sash and secured with a small ornamental toggle or counterweight called a netsuke.
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A carved vari-coloured agate chimpanzee with folded arms, with olivine eyes. Carved from a single piece of agate the body is of a tawny colour and the face grey-blue.
Kissing Geese, Unknown, Japan, 18th century, Costumes, Ivory with staining, sumi.
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Netsuke Carver Fumio's Recent works. 3D sculptures. Netsuke, Bone carving, Antler Carving and Unique Carvings.根付や３D彫刻ネックレス、ボーンカービングなどユニークな彫刻作品。購入可能
Stile di Yoshimura Shuzan, 18° secoloFirmato: ShuzanAltezza: 9,8 cmProvenienza:Collezione W. L. Behrens, no. 311Bibliografia:H. L. Joly, W. L. Behrens Collection. Part I Netsuke and Japanese Carvings, London: Glendening, 1912, plate XLII
An elephant, in netsuke form, carved in purpurine with rose diamond eyes.The stylised low-relief carving of this elephant, carved in purpurine with rose diamond eyes, particularly demonstrates Fabergé’s interest in Japanese netsuke carving. It was necessary for Fabergé’s sculptors to keep the carving dense to ensure that the fragile stone did not fracture. One of Fabergés designers, Franz Birbaum, notes when describing the animal carvings, ‘it should be said that the...
Ivory netsuke. Cat licking its paw.
NM-1912-0647
