Kozuka with a Sparrow and a Basket

Description Provenance Inscription Credit

Description A basket is suspended on a rope from a bamboo rod at the top of the composition. Several ferns stick out from the basket. A sparrow perches on the rope. The artist signed the kozuka on the reverse.

Provenance William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions signature

Credit Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters

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Creator

Masatoshi (Japanese) (Artist)

Period

18th-19th century (Edo)

Medium

shibuichi, gold, copper
(Arms & Armor)

Accession Number

51.741

Measurements

3 3/4 in. (9.6 cm) (l.)

Geographies

Japan (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Not On View