Inrô and netsuke, often made of expensive, rare materials and bearing the signature and seal of the carver, were designed not only for their functional ability to carry things, but also as markers of wealth.
Netsuke served as anchors or counterweights for inrô and sagemono ( 14.40.843a,b)
Fragmentary PlateThis shallow plate has a plain rim with a rounded edge. The wall curves down and in, with a depression ( diam. 4 cm [1 5/8 in.]) at the center of the floor. Most of the floor is missing; similar plates have either a plain base or three applied feet (see, for example, Smith 1957, no
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin vol. 37 no. 4 (1942). p. 109, ill. fig. 33 (b/
London and New York: B. T. Batsford, 1907. pp. 163, 165, fig. 94.
New York, nineteenth century
B. Morse, on loan from New York’s City Hall.
With the rise of the transatlantic trade through the seventeenth into nineteenth centuries, ivory became among the most valuable African natural resources desired by Western industry.
merchants engaged in trade along the Loango Coast of west-central Africa ( 1993.382a,b)
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Inscription: Signed and inscribed: (lower center) NICOLAVS·ZAFVRI·PINXIT·; (top, in Greek) [Christ] being dragged to the cross; (beside Christ’s head, in Greek) Jesus Christ; (right, on banner) SPQR
collection of Apollinare Matterozzi. 1828, c. 9r [Archivio curia vescovile, Urbania, b.
Beeson, Nora B., ed. Guide to The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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2023 Undecorated Coffin from an Embalming Cache, Labelled “Khaemhor” (26.3.13a, b)
