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Netsuke: Okame

Place of OriginJapan
Datemid-19th century
DimensionsH: 1 5/16 (3.3 cm)
Mediumearthenware
ClassificationSculpture
Credit LineGift of Richard R. Silverman
Object number
2009.218
Not on View
DescriptionOkame. Kyoto ware; earthenware with polychrome glazes.
Exhibition HistoryToledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Life in Miniature: Ceramic Netsuke from the Silverman Collection, October 1, 2010 - February 27, 2011, repr. (col.) Checklist, p. 67, (catalog title: Adornment in Clay: Ceramic Netsuke from the Richard R. Silverman Collection).
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