Smoking Set with Masks

Description Exhibitions Provenance Inscription Credit

Description The masks on the tobacco pouch and the netsuke represent those seen at the No Theater. The netsuke is by Tadatsugu.

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] Tadatsugu

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters

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18th-19th century (Edo-Meiji)

embossed leather, lacquer, wood, sperm whale tooth, silver, gold-copper (shakudo), bamboo
(Leather)

73.81

4 1/8 x 5 1/2 in. (10.48 x 13.97 cm); case: 8 7/8 in. (22.54 cm) (l.)