Portable Writing Set (Yatate) with Rabbit

19th century (late Edo) Overall: 7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm) Citation Source image

Decorated all over with conventional blooms and vine tendrils. A free-standing rabbit on lid of inkwell. Inscription in raised characters on bottom of stem.

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20761
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Grande Compagnie (Kiryu Kosho Kaisha), Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1878; William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1878, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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