On View
- Artist
- Unknown (Japanese)
- Title
- Ashinaga (Longlegs) and Tenaga (Longarms) with Octopus
- Date
- 19th century
- Period
- Edo or Meiji Periods
- Medium
- Ivory and sumi (ink)
- Dimensions
- 3 5/8 x 1 3/16 x 1/2 in. Overall
- Credit
- Gift of Dorothy Jones Frautschi
- Accession No.
- 1995.64.43
- Classification
- Decorative Carving
- Geography
- Japan
Related
30 January 1959, purchased at Japan Art Company, Inc. (New York, NY) 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]
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