Figure
Category
Objets de vertu
Date
Unknown
Materials
Ivory
Measurements
70 x 25 mm
Place of origin
Japan
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1339452
Summary
Small ivory figure of a man wearing a loin cloth. One arm raised in gesture, once carried a palanquin (hole in top of shoulder and mark on side of neck). 'Japanese ivory carving of a palanquin carrier' (M. Jessup).
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.