Netsuke
Category
Ivory and bone
Date
Unknown
Materials
Ivory
Measurements
50 x 33 x 21 mm
Place of origin
Japan
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1339592
Summary
Japanese netsuke, ivory of a squatting figure wearing a check coat, holding a ladle above his head in his right hand, poring liquid into a container held in his left hand. He has a dog to his left, standing on its hind legs.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.