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Collections

Kyūsai Tetsugen
Buddhist Monk Sleeping on Gongearly 20th century

Not on view
Small carved sculpture, likely ivory or bone, of a bald child reclining over a crimson-lacquered gourd, with amber and green textured details, possibly a netsuke
Artist or Maker
Kyūsai Tetsugen
Title
Buddhist Monk Sleeping on Gong
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
early 20th century
Medium
Wood with lacquer, pigments
Dimensions
1 5/8 x 1 3/16 x 13/16 in. (4.1 x 3.0 x 2.1 cm)
Credit Line
Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection
Accession Number
AC1998.249.302
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Bushell, Raymond. Collector's Netsuke. New York: Walker/Weatherhill, 1971.
  • Bushell, Raymond. Netsuke Familiar and Unfamiliar: New Principles for Collecting. New York: Weatherhill, 1975.
  • Goodall, Hollis, Virginia G. Atchley, Neil K. Davey, Christine Drosse, Sebastian Izzard, Odile Madden, and Robert T. Singer. The Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection of Netsuke: A Legacy at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Chicago: Art Media Resources, Inc.; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2003.