Elephant Tusk Vase

Description This vase has been carved to depict a family of monkeys, and wasps.

Exhibitions

• Excursions through the Collection: Portraiture, Adornment, and the Natural World. 2019-2021.

Provenance Exposition Universelle Internationale, Paris, 1900; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1900, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Seal] Natsume

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1900