Container for Incense Wood with Overlapping Fans
(Japan and Korea )
Provenance
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Wakai Kanesaburo, Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876; William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1876, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
2014-2016 | From Rye to Raphael: The Walters Story. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
1876 | Centennial Exhibition Philadelphia. Memorial Hall, Philadelphia, Philadelphia. |
Geographies
Japan (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H overall outer box: 1/2 × W: 3 1/16 × D: 1 3/4 in. (1.2 × 7.8 × 4.4 cm); H base of outer box: 3/8 × W: 3 1/16 × D: 1 3/4 in. (0.9 × 7.8 × 4.4 cm); H lid of outer box: 3/16 × W: 3 1/16 × D: 1 3/4 in. (0.5 × 7.8 × 4.4 cm); H overall inner box: 1/4 × W: 1 1/4 × D: 5/16 in. (0.7 × 3.2 × 2.4 cm); H base of inner box: 1/4 × W: 1 3/16 × D: 7/8 in. (0.6 × 3 × 2.2 cm); H lid of inner box: 1/4 × W: 1 1/4 × D: 15/16 in. (0.6 × 3.2 × 2.4 cm); H overall inner box: 1/4 × W: 1 1/4 × D: 15/16 in. (0.7 × 3.2 × 2.4 cm); H base of inner box: 1/4 × W: 1 3/16 × D: 7/8 in. (0.6 × 3 × 2.2 cm); H lid of inner box: 1/4 × W: 1 1/4 × D: 15/16 in. (0.6 × 3.2 × 2.4 cm); H overall inner box: 1/4 × W: 1 1/4 × D: 15/16 in. (0.7 × 3.2 × 2.4 cm); H base of inner box: 1/4 × W: 1 3/16 × D: 7/8 in. (0.6 × 3 × 2.2 cm); H lid of inner box: 1/4 × W: 1 1/4 × D: 15/16 in. (0.6 × 3.2 × 2.4 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by William T. Walters, 1876
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.
67.116