Writer's Seal with Grazing Deer

Description Exhibitions Provenance Inscription Credit

Description A carved ivory netsuke of a writer's seal with grazing deer and a bat incised on the bottom.

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] Mitsuhiro

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters

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19th century (Edo; Meiji)

ivory, pigment
(Ivory & Bone)

71.891

1 5/16 x 1 5/16 in. (3.4 x 3.3 cm)