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Lidded Box
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Lidded Box

Artist Susuma Ikuta (Japanese, born 1934)
Datebetween 1978-2016
Dimensions8 × 5 1/4 × 7 in. (20.3 × 13.3 × 17.8 cm)
Mediumporcelain with underglaze
ClassificationCeramics
Credit LineAnonymous Donation in Honor of Adam Levine, Director of the Toledo Museum of Art
Object number
2025.31A-B
Not on View
DescriptionA hexagonal lidded box made of porcelain with surface decoration. The surface decoration shows a praying mantis and a butterfly situated on top of red and purple leafy flowers. The decoration continues on the interior, where an asymmetric composition places a praying mantis approaching a house fly. The underside of the base has Susumu Ikuta’s signature.
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