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Portable Writing Set (Yatate) with Rabbit
Decorated all over with conventional blooms and vine tendrils. A free-standing rabbit on lid of inkwell. Inscription in raised characters on bottom of stem.
Inscription
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Grande Compagnie (Kiryu Kosho Kaisha), Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1878; William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1878, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 1878 | Exposition Universelle. Paris. |
Geographies
Edo (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Overall: 7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by William T. Walters, 1878
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
54.1938