On View
- Artist
- Tomotada
(Japanese, active ca. 1780) - Title
- Boy Reading While Leaning on a Recumbent Water Buffalo
- Date
- late 18th century
- Period
- Edo Period
- Medium
- Ivory, stain, sumi (ink), and horn inlay
- Dimensions
- 7/8 x 2 1/8 x 1 9/16 in. Overall
- Credit
- Gift of Dorothy Jones Frautschi
- Accession No.
- 1995.64.1
- Classification
- Decorative Carving
- Geography
- Japan
Related
October 1959, purchased at the Miyako Hotel Giftshop (Kyoto, Japan) by Dorothy Jones Frautschi (Madison, WI); December 1995, gifted by Dorothy Jones Frautschi (Madison, WI) to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]
- Chōnin: Japanese Art from the Elvehjem Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 9/1/2001–11/11/2001
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