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Collections

Unknown
Simplified Animal19th century

Not on view
Small carved stone sculpture of a stylized four-legged animal with a rounded, tapering body in mottled terracotta-orange and salmon-pink stone, with a pale yellow-green vein across the back
Artist or Maker
Unknown
Title
Simplified Animal
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
19th century
Medium
Raku ware; stoneware
Dimensions
7/8 x 1 3/4 x 3/4 in. (2.2 x 4.5 x 1.9 cm)
Credit Line
Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection
Accession Number
M.87.263.68
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • 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.
  • Bushell, Raymond. Netsuke: Japanese Sculpture in Miniature from the Collection of Raymond and Frances Bushell, Part III. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1986.