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Boy on a buffalo

MAK/Johannes Wieninger

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Title

Boy on a buffalo

Collection

Production

execution: anonymous, Japan, 18th to 19th century

Period | Style | School

Edo period (1603-1868)

Material | Technique

ivory

Measurements

length: 4.5 cm

Inventory number

PL 778

Acquisition

donation , 1948

Department

Asia Collection

Description

katabori 形彫, Porzellan glasiert Darstellung eines Knaben mit Flöte in der Hand auf einem Büffel sitzend (sog. ‘ushidōji 牛童子’= Büffelknabe). Representation of a boy with a flute in his hand sitting on a buffalo (so-called ‘ushidōji’).

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