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Netsuke: stack of coins
Netsuke carved from ivory, depicting a pile of coins, probably as a netsuke that merchants liked to wear, possibly as a kind of talisman to increase wealth. The recognizable coins - all of rather low value, with square holes - are an Eiraku tsuho, imported from China in the Muromachi period, where it was first minted in 1408. In the middle is a so-called Wado kaiho, the earliest coin minted in Jap…
Date
- 1750/1800
Medium
- Material: ivory
- ivory (material)
- Ivory
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 1750
- 1750/1800
Provenance
- 1837-01-01
- Aankoop
Identifier
- RV-1-2704
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/588087
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- scale
- ambergris
- carving
- coin
Year
- 1750
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-31T16:16:09.268Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2021-10-20T13:51:01.552Z