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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. 2019-2021.

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

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19th century (Meiji)

carved ivory tusk in sunken and low relief and slightly stained
(Ivory & Bone)

71.1092

H: 21 5/8 in. (54.9 cm)