Can you identify this object?

[Silver Fox]

I found this object back in the '80s in New York City's City Hall Park. My thinking about it was that it was placed where I found it by a supertitious individual who may have buried it with the hope of possibly "blessing" the city. It is a strange little statue but I don't know which deity it represents and I don't know if it's Indian, Chinese, Japanese, or none of the above.

It is 2-1/4" high and has three little holes on the base in a triangle (2 in the back and 1 in the front). What I cannot show you is that this little statue is of a female and it is anatomically correct. It seems that its proper use was being placed on a stilt-like configuration with possibly a reflecting surface under it angled so that the sexual organ was visible from the front. :P

I don't want any perverts here asking me to post the underside photo! I don't want to be banned.

So, if any of you geniuses have any knowledge as to who this statue represents and what its purpose was/is, please tell me/us. I've had all of these years and I've never been able to find anything about it. Your turn.

Silver Fox

 

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[Ant]

Buda.

 

[Silver Fox]

"A netsuke (net-skeh) is a miniature sculpture developed in Japan over a period of more than three hundred years. This highly collectable art form is both functional and aesthetic and will continue to increase in value very quickly. The kimono, the traditional form of Japanese dress, had no pockets. Men suspended pouches (inro) on a silk cord from their sash (obi) . To stop the cord from slipping through the "obi", a small toggle is attached. That small toggle is the "netsuke".
The two Jpanese characters that are used to spell the word "netsuke", are "net" which means "root", such as bamboo root that may have been used as an early netsuke, and "tsuke", which means "to fasten". Thus, netsuke originally meant a root that had been fastened to something."

If you google "erotic netsuke" you will find several different types and shapes...hope this helps

Ant said Buda (sic) and that's definitely closer than netsuke, erotic or not but that helped me think. First, though, a netsuke is a small, Japanese, intricately carved toggles for fastening the cords of cloth bags or hung from the sash of the kimono and made from wood or ivory. My statuette is made from solid metal and weighty. You couldn't use it to hold anything and was made to be placed in a permanent spot although it could be moved from altar to altar.

Thanks, though.

 

[sticksboards]

who took these pictures of my wife?

 

[Angelo]

Sorry, Sticks.

She told me she was single.

 

[Montana Jim]

I think it most resembles the Chinese posed Buddha...

 

[mojjax]

Wasn't Buddha a guy ?

 

[Montana Jim]

Wasn't Buddha a guy ?

Yea.. I was looking at the similarities in iconic statue poses... SHE is posed like HE

 

[jimbob450]

Possibly Buddas wife Budette.

 

[Rob66]

Buddha... was fat!!!! with girl.........