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Fox
Netsuke
Lost Art-ID
600923
Artist
Unknown (Japan)
Title
Fox
Additional title
Netsuke
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Ivory / carved
Height
10.40 cm
Description
The fox dances in winter clothes disguised as a man; generally fox, kitsune, uses his supernatural gifts mainly to play tricks on people; he is in possession of demonic powers.
Provenance
Acquired in 1908 by Herbert Ginsberg in Japan; 1908 to 1942 Ostasiatica Collection Herbert Ginsberg, Berlin; confiscated by the SD in Rotterdam in 1942.
Literature / Source
Undatierter Katalog (um Nov. 1929), in: DigiBaeck, Leo Baeck Institute New York (LBI NY), Gilbert Family Collection, AR 1028/MF 818, Box 7, folder 4, S. 690-921, Abschnitt Netsuke und Okimono, Tiere, Nr. 125.
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