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  2. Netsuke - Wikipedia

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    Ivory, amber buffalo horn. A netsuke (根付, [netsɯ̥ke]) is a miniature sculpture, originating in 17th century Japan. Initially a simply-carved button fastener on the cords of an inrō box, netsuke later developed into ornately sculpted objects of craftsmanship. [1]

  3. Masanao of Kyoto - Wikipedia

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    Masanao of Kyoto. Carved netsuke of a sleeping rat, made out of ivory, by Masanao from Kyoto. Masanao (正直, mid-late 1700s) was a noted Japanese sculptor of netsuke from the Kyoto area. He is thus associated with the Kyoto school. His works often depict animals, and he is considered to have been one of the greatest artists working in the ...

  4. Scrimshaw - Wikipedia

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    Scrimshaw. Scrimshaw is scrollwork, engravings, and carvings done in bone or ivory. Typically it refers to the artwork created by whalers, engraved on the byproducts of whales, such as bones or cartilage. It is most commonly made out of the bones and teeth of sperm whales, the baleen of other whales, and the tusks of walruses.

  5. Seals in the Sinosphere - Wikipedia

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    Various countries in these regions currently use a mixture of seals and hand signatures, and, increasingly, electronic signatures. [1] Chinese seals are typically made of stone, sometimes of metals, wood, bamboo, plastic, or ivory, and are typically used with red ink or cinnabar paste (Chinese: 朱砂; pinyin: zhūshā). The word 印 ("yìn" in ...

  6. Gechu - Wikipedia

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    Gechu. Carved shaggy dog and pup netsuke made out of ivory, signed by Gechū. Baku: Monster that Eats Nightmares, ivory with staining, sumi (ink), and traces of red pigment, attributed to Gechū. Dog, ivory with staining, sumi, inlays, attributed to Gechū. Gechū (牙虫; [1][2][3] active 18th century) was a Japanese sculptor.

  7. Ojime - Wikipedia

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    Ojime. A Japanese 19th-century mixed metal ojime bead. Inro, ojime and netsuke. Lacquer inro, stained ivory ojime and wooden netsuke; inro features a reclining figure in a boat; netsuke is in the form of a mask, by Ikkan (ca. 1750-1850) An ojime (緒締め, lit. "cord fastener") is a bead used in Japanese inrō (carrying cases).

  8. Ivory carving - Wikipedia

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    The Venus of Brassempouy, about 25,000 BP. 11th-century Anglo-Saxon ivory cross reliquary of walrus ivory. Ivory carving is the carving of ivory, that is to say animal tooth or tusk, generally by using sharp cutting tools, either mechanically or manually. Objects carved in ivory are often called "ivories". Humans have ornamentally carved ivory ...

  9. Virgin and Child from the Sainte-Chapelle - Wikipedia

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    The Virgin and Child from the Sainte-Chapelle is an ivory sculpture probably created in the 1260s, currently in the possession of the Louvre Museum in Paris.The museum itself describes it as "unquestionably the most beautiful piece of ronde-bosse [in the round] ivory carving ever made", [1] and the finest individual work of art in the wave of ivory sculpture coming out of Paris in the 13th and ...

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