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Inro with a Western Bowman Aiming at a Faun
(Japan and Korea )
A standard shape light ceramic five compartment inro decorated in relief with a faun holding a reed pipe. The reverse with a European archer with brown hair and flowered coat, wearing spurs. Both in relief and with blue and green glazes. The archer's robe with scrolls and flowers in dark blue, green and red. The hair is light brown. The light cord runners with scales, and the brown background incised to imitate tree bark. Spurious signature and date in raised lacquer characters within an irregularly shaped gold lacquer section on the bottom of the inro. The interior has a turquoise glaze. The cord channels are external.
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Provenance
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William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Japan, Tokyo (Edo) (Place of Origin)
Measurements
inro: 4 x 1 13/16 x 1 1/8 in. (10.1 x 4.6 x 2.8 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by William T. or 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.
49.2275