Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
netsuke .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Japanese art, such as netsukes, paintings, and such like. "
John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman
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Greek vase forms, lovely collections of Japanese ivories and netsukes.
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He learned of handsome examples of porcelain, statuary, Greek vase forms, lovely collections of Japanese ivories and netsukes.
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Sometimes Mrs. Krauss would linger for fifteen minutes, sometimes for longer, talking over netsukes and Hong Kong with Ah Shee.
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"Oh, Aunt Flora comes to Ah Shee's shop hunting for ivories; she is collecting netsukes."
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An instant of clear vision had come; scales had fallen from her eyes; she recalled those strange excursions to Ah Shee's stifling den, the purchase of ivories so soon thrown aside; undoubtedly this collection of netsukes was a blind -- her aunt's real object was to procure _drugs_!
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When ceramic artist de Waal inherits a collection of netsukes, he becomes curious about his family and the provenance of the Japanese carvings they collected.
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The linchpin for his discussion is a collection of 246 netsukes, miniature ornamental carvings including one of a hare with amber eyes, which were originally collected by the first Charles Ephrussi, scion of a family that was a cultural force both in Vienna and in Paris.
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He uses as the linchpin for his discussion a collection of 246 netsukes, miniature ornamental carvings including one of a hare with amber eyes, which were originally collected by the first Charles Ephrussi and handed down from generation to generation.
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He uses as the linchpin for his discussion a collection of 246 netsukes, miniature ornamental carvings including one of a hare with amber eyes, which were originally collected by the first Charles Ephrussi and handed down from generation to generation.
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