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.