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Nesting figure

Two conical, interlocking hollow figures, painted with a large-eyed face, one red, the other purple. The principle comes from Chinese nesting boxes (套盒, pinyin: tàohé), where a series of boxes of graduated sizes each fit into the next larger box, similar to the principle of Russian matryoshka dolls: A wooden figure split down the centre from top to bottom, revealing a smaller figure of the same kind inside, which in turn has another figure inside, and so on.

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Object type
Nesting figure
Dimensions
Height: 5,2 cm
Diameter: 4,2 cm
Height: 7 cm
Diameter: 5,5 cm
Material/Technique
Wood
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
I D 37546 a,b

Provenance and sources

when
1912
where
Japan

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