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Flint and Steel Lighter with a Songbird on a Stump

Flint and Steel Lighter with a Songbird on a Stump

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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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