On View
- Artist
- Unknown (Japanese)
- Title
- Flint and Steel Lighter with a Songbird on a Stump
- Date
- 19th century
- Period
- Edo or Meiji Periods
- Medium
- Copper and iron
- Dimensions
- 1 5/16 x 1 3/4 x 7/8 in. Overall
- Credit
- Gift of Dorothy Jones Frautschi
- Accession No.
- 1995.64.66
- Classification
- Metalwork
- Geography
- Japan
Related
25 August 1960, purchased at S.H. MORI Fine Arts of the Orient (Chicago, IL) 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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