Netsuke: Sleeping boar
Netsuke: Sleeping boar
Place of OriginJapan
Datemid-19th century
DimensionsL: 2 1/16 in. (5.2 cm)
Mediumearthenware
ClassificationSculpture
Credit LineGift of Richard R. Silverman
Object number
2009.243
Not on View
DescriptionBoar lying in grass. Banko 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. 55, (catalog title: Adornment in Clay: Ceramic Netsuke from the Richard R. Silverman Collection).
mid-19th century
late 19th century
mid-19th century
late 19th century
mid-19th century
late 19th century
mid-19th century
late 19th century
late 19th century
Unidentified, Gorgoneion Group
about 560 BCE
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