Antique Japanese Eating Utensils

Item Details

An antique Japanese traveling set with a pair of bone chopsticks with metal tips and a wood and bone-handled knife in a wooden sheath with silver hardware and decoration. There are Japanese characters on the blade of the knife. The handle of the knife, the end of a chopstick, and the base of the case are marked with the previous museum inventory numbers. 1938.0215

Provenance
Collected in the late 19th and early 20th century and donated to a Private Midwestern Institution in 1938
Sold to enhance and preserve the Institution’s mission-relevant Collections

Condition

one chopstick is stuck in pouch.

Dimensions

Item #

17COL077-198