- Title
- Meditating Priest with Buzzing Fly
- Date Made
- 19th century
- Period
- Edo period (1603-1868) or Meiji period (1868-1912)
- Medium
- Ivory with staining, sumi, inlays
- Dimensions
- 1 9/16 x 1 1/4 x 15/16 in. (4.0 x 3.1 x 2.4 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.91.250.159
- Collecting Area
- Japanese Art
- Selected Bibliography
- Bushell, Raymond. An Exhibition of Netsuke from the Raymond Bushell Collection. Tokyo: Mikimoto World Jewelers, 1979.
- Hurtig, Bernard. Masterpieces of Netsuke Art: One Thousand Favorites of Leading Collectors. New York: Weatherhill, 1973.
- Bushell, Raymond. Netsuke: Japanese Scultpure in Minature from the Collection of Raymond and Frances Bushell, Part II. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1985.
- 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.
- Atchley, Virginia G. "Raymond Bushell Netsuke at The Los Angeles County Museum of Art." Netsuke Kenkyukai Study Journal 5, no.3 (1985): 12-15.
