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Box for Incense Ash
(Japan and Korea )
This "takigara-ire" is four-lobed and decorated in black and gold lacquer. The lid and exterior sides of the box are decorated with similar designs of autumnal flowers, small rocks, and four "mitsuaoi" crests.
There is a black "ro-iro" background for a design in "hira-makie" in gold; the interior of the lid and the exterior bottom of the box are decorated with "nashiji;" the interior of the box is covered with gilded meta;. The rims are "kinji."
Provenance
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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquistion unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Japan (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 1 7/8 × W: 2 7/8 × D: 2 1/16 in. (4.8 × 7.3 × 5.3 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry 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.
67.40