Netsuke: Mask of Okame

Artist Gyokuzan (Japanese)

Datelate 19th century

Dimensions1 9/16 x 3/4 in. (4 x 1.9 cm)

Mediumlacquer and ivory

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LineGift of H. A. Fee

Object number

1948.152A

Not on View

DescriptionA katabori netsuke.

Exhibition HistoryToledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Japanese Treasures: The Art of Netsuke Carving in the Toledo Museum of Art, 2000, p. 43, repr. (col.) (author Carolyn M. Putney).

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