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Dancer Imitating a Crane


鶴舞 銘:舟月作
Attributed to: Shûgetsu II of Edo (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
late 18th to early 19th century
Object Place: Tokyo, Japan

Medium/Technique Stained boxwood
Dimensions 6.8 x 2.3 x 3.9 cm (2 11/16 x 7/8 x 1 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.23534
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsNetsuke

Catalogue Raisonné Earle, Netsuke (MFA, 2001), #154
Signed Shûgetsu saku (made by Shûgetsu)
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.