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Unidentified

Bookmark or Letter Opener with Design of Swimming Fish

c. 1900

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Unidentified

Bookmark or Letter Opener with Design of Swimming Fish

c. 1900

Physical Qualities Ox bone, pigment, 5 3/8 × 9/16 × 1/8 in. (13.7 × 1.4 × 0.3 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Staige Davis Hodges from the John Erikson Family Collection
Object Number 2024.205
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2024; Staige Davis Hodges by descent; probably via her grandmother from her grandmother's aunt

Inscribed: Incised signature: 玉舟 (Gyokusyu or Gyokuryu)

Artist Artist (Gyokusyu or Gyokuryu)

Unidentified

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