Netsuke: Acrobat
Netsuke: Acrobat
Place of OriginJapan
Date19th century
Mediumivory
ClassificationSculpture
Credit LineGift of Richard R. Silverman
Object number
2016.236
Not on View
DescriptionNetsuke in the shape of an acrobat on its arms and elbows, with its legs in the air above its head.
about 150 CE
Hellenistic Greek, possibly Ptolemaic, about 150-50 BCE
5th Dynasty (2498–2345 BCE)
New Kingdom Period
18th Dynasty (1550-1292 BCE), about 1350 BCE
750-650 BCE
18th Dynasty (1550-1292 BCE), about 1397-1360 BCE
425-350 BCE
Before 1880
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