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Netsuke: three mangetout, 1780

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Record status

Individual type · partial

Period

1780

Netsuke: three mangetout, 1780 is held by National Museum of World Cultures Foundation, dated 1780. Museum description: Netsuke carved from ivory, depicting Three pods, one of them still with a piece of the stem, in a daring arrangement with a lot of opening.

The cord of this netsuke is pulled through the openings between the pods, there is no drilled hole for this. These details come from the holding museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.

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Identification

Europeana id
/2048221/europeana_fashion_735368
Museum object name
Netsuke: three mangetout
Holding institution
National Museum of World Cultures Foundation

Catalogue references

No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.

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