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Case (Inrō) with Design of Seated Monkey Looking at a Wasp (obverse); Crabs with Fan beside Waves (reverse)
Mori Sosen (Japanese, 1747–1821)
19th century
- Medium
- Metal, brass metal, incised, various applied metals; Interior: silver metal
- Classification
- Inrō
- Dimensions
- 2 5/8 x 1 15/16 x 13/16 in. (6.7 x 5 x 2 cm)
- Culture
- Japan
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Asian Art
- Credit line
- H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
