Box for Documents and Papers (ryoshi bako)

Description Exhibitions Provenance Credit

Description This box is decorated in black and gold lacquer to depict pine seedlings and bands of mist.

Exhibitions

Centennial Exhibition Philadelphia. Memorial Hall, Philadelphia, Philadelphia. 1876.

Provenance Minoda Chojiro, Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876; William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1876, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by William T. Walters, 1876

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Creator

Japanese (Artist)

Period

18th-mid 19th century (Edo)

Medium

black and gold lacquer
(Lacquer & Inlay)

Accession Number

67.126

Measurements

8 x 10 11/16 in. (20.3 x 27.1 cm)

Geographies

Japan (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Hackerman House: Fourth Floor: Japanese Objects