[Grandma [i.e. Grandpa] & picture book]
Contributors: Hakata Urasaki Doll Company.
Format: Realia
Other titles: Mathes Reading Figurines Collection.; Western Image Collection.
Description: Painted unglazed pottery figure group or "doll" of a seated elderly man in traditional dress looking at an open book with a baby held in his right arm.
Notes: Title from original hangtag label accompanying figure.

Marks: Two labels applied under base, one showing "Hakata Urasaki Dolls" in white on red background and "Japan" in red on white background and one with black print on yellow background headed "Washable" and providing cleaning instructions.

Item number on hangtag: U-198.

Gift of Miriam Snow Mathes.

Available at Special Collections, Wilson Library, Western Washington University, 516 High St., Bellingham, WA 98225-9103, USA, phone 360-650-3193; restricted access, appointment required.

Digital images captured with Sony Digital Mavica MVC-FD91 camera; 020502; JPEG version (image 1 (36 KB), image 2 (36 KB), image 3 (47 KB), image 4 (49 KB), image 5 (27 KB)); Resolution 72 dpi; edited with Adobe Photoshop 5.0 Limited Edition.

Reproduction of image requires permission of depository. 

Purchased by donor at Frederick & Nelson, Seattle, Wash., in the 1960s; acquired by library in 1999.

WL177: 1/6.