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Collections

Gyokkōsai
Chinese Boy Mounted on a Duckmid-19th century

Not on view
Small ivory-toned netsuke carving of a human figure seated atop a duck, with incised feather details and an inlaid dark eye

Gyokkōsai, Chinese Boy Mounted on a Duck, mid-19th century, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Gyokkōsai
Japan, active 1830-1868
Title
Chinese Boy Mounted on a Duck
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
mid-19th century
Period
Edo period (1603-1868) or Meiji period (1868-1912)
Medium
Ivory with sumi, inlays
Dimensions
1 11/16 x 1 1/2 x 3/4 in. (4.3 x 3.8 x 1.8 cm)
Credit Line
Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection
Accession Number
M.91.250.307
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Bushell, Raymond. Netsuke Familiar and Unfamiliar: New Principles for Collecting. New York: Weatherhill, 1975.
  • Bushell, Raymond. Netsuke: Japanese Sculpture in Miniature from the Collection of Raymond and Frances Bushell, Part IV. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.

  • Blondet, José Luis. Six Scripts for Not I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE-2020 CE). Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2020.