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Sasaki Tomiaki
Snail on Boar Tusk1787

Not on view
Carved cream-white stone object with a curved leaf shape, featuring a honey-amber snail in high relief and Chinese inscriptions on the surface

Sasaki Tomiaki, Snail on Boar Tusk, 1787, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Sasaki Tomiaki
Title
Snail on Boar Tusk
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
1787
Period
Edo period (1603-1868)
Medium
Boar tusk with sumi, buffalo horn
Dimensions
3 1/2 x 13/16 x 1/2 in. (9.0 x 2.1 x 1.3 cm)
Credit Line
Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection
Accession Number
M.91.250.15
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Bushell, Raymond. Collector's Netsuke. New York: Walker/Weatherhill, 1971.
  • Catalog of an Exhibition of Netsuke from the Collection of Raymond Bushell. London: Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd., 1984.
  • 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.
  • Lazarnick, George. Netsuke and Inro Artists, and How to Read Their Signatures, vol. 2. Honolulu: Reed Publishers, 1981.
  • Goodall, Hollis. "Beyond Ivory: the Colorful World of Netsuke, Part 1." International Netsuke Society Journal 24, no.4 (2004): 14-22.