White Lily

Description Exhibitions Provenance Inscription Credit

Description An undercut ivory netsuke of a lily, with amberlike stamens applied.

Exhibitions

Netsuke: Miniature Sculpture of Japan. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1978.

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

Inscriptions [Signature] Homin [tama kakihan]

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters

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mid 19th century (Edo; Meiji)

ivory, amber (?)
(Ivory & Bone)

71.805

1 5/16 x 2 1/16 in. (3.3 x 5.2 cm)