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Description: | Bronze figure, okimono, of Hotei carrying aloft a fan in his right hand being pulled inside his own sack by a child, another child on a lid which fits in a small aperture at the top. This child is holding a drum(?) and may have also held a stick (now missing). Decorative gilt inlay motifs on exterior including a representation of pots on a three-legged stand symbolising fire, a lucky symbol and other lucky symbols. On a wooden stand. The heads of the figures and the inside of the pot are in a metal containing copper, inlaid, whereas the rest of the outer surface. Export ware. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | bronze figures (ritual & belief: representations) wood gilding figures | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-143471 | Go to resource |
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