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Elephant Tusk Vase
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Elephant Tusk Vase

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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. 2019-2020.
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
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Period
19th century (Meiji)
Medium
carved ivory tusk in sunken and low relief and slightly stained
(Ivory & Bone)
Accession Number
71.1092
Measurements
H: 21 5/8 in. (54.9 cm)
Geographies
  • Japan (Place of Origin)
Location Within Museum
Excursions through the Collection: Portraiture, Adornment, and the Natural World

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