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Fallow deer, Japanese (pair with BL4)
Stoneware
Museum number: BL3
On display: Book Passage (pre-booked tours only)
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
This ceramic deer has four small holes in the top of the head, presumably for antlers.
Deer are the sacred animals of the famous Kasuga shrine in Nara and it is possible that Soane's pair of deer came from there. Similar deer are known in brass. They were probably new or relatively new when Sir John Soane acquired them some time before 1837.
The Soane Museum 'AB' inventory, 1837, described this item as 'A Grotesque Non-descript Animal in China'.
Deer are the sacred animals of the famous Kasuga shrine in Nara and it is possible that Soane's pair of deer came from there. Similar deer are known in brass. They were probably new or relatively new when Sir John Soane acquired them some time before 1837.
The Soane Museum 'AB' inventory, 1837, described this item as 'A Grotesque Non-descript Animal in China'.
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