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Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Designs for Inro and Other Lacquers
(Japan and Korea )
A very rare Japanese pattern book which contains 373 tipped-in slips of paper with sketches in ink, some lightly colored. Yoyusai seems to have compiled the album not strictly to use as patterns but as a collection of motifs and sketches he liked.
Inscription
Provenance
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William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest [accessioned 1991].
Geographies
Japan, Tokyo (Edo) (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 10 5/8 x W: 7 5/8 in. (27 x 19.3 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by William T. Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
35.166