- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Wooden netsuke of a seated figure, with his mouth open, showing ivory teeth, his arms and legs stretched out, and wearing a red garment. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 28/4/2005]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Japanese
- Person
- Field collector James Bellhouse Gaskell
- PRM source Hermann Arthur Gunther
- PRM source Albert Everard Gunther
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 15/07/1926
- Date collected
- By 15 July 1926
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 1944 Donated: 1980
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Material Lacquer Varnish, Process Painted, Process Carved, Process Lacquered Varnished
- Dimensions
- Height: max 38 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1980.34.1858 Other numbers: Gaskell collection no. 1533
- Research and responses
Daruma is the Japanese name for Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen Buddhism. See http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/daruma.shtml. [El.B 07/02/2012]
1980.34.1858
Wooden netsuke of a seated figure, with his mouth open, showing ivory teeth, his arms and legs stretched out, and wearing a red garment. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 28/4/2005]
On display
1980.34.1858
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