Bronze Lid Rest (Futaoki), Three Chinese Children

mid-18th century

Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm)
Credit Line: Collection of Peggy and Richard M. Danziger, LL.B. 1963
Loan number: ILE2009.10.3
Geography: Japan
Culture: Japanese
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

With Takashi Yanagi Oriental Fine Arts, Kyoto, Japan, by 1980; sold to Peggy D. Danziger (née Block) and Richard “Dick” M. Danziger, New York, and Purchase, New York, 1980 (on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2009–24); given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2024

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Inscriptions

Storage box lid obverse inscribed "Karadô [Chinese copper] mitsu ningyô [ three dolls] futaoki." Lid reverse inscribed "Karadô mitsu ningyô futaoki \ The object to the right is certified to be made by (Nagoshi) Jômi of the Hôreki era 1751-1764 \ On-kamashi (kettlemaker) \ Ônishi Sei'emon (Jôchô, 12th generation Kyoto Ônish, d. 1943) \ cyclical dates \ early autumn day (black seal)."

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