Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Ko-bako for the Incense Game: Inside Box Base
A rectangular gold lacquer ko-bako with an overlapping lid and two interior covered boxes. On top of lid a board game like backgammon? (sugoroku) with two dice applied to form a handle, the sides of the lid are decorated with sprays of various kinds of flowers and grasses: dew grass (tsuyukusa), scabiosa, eulalia grass, cockscomb (keito), a cutout section on each narrow side of the lid serves as a handgrip, interior boxes and sides of main box decorated with cords tied in bows, and loops with tassels, and with "endless knot" ornament
Lid in fundame in gold with design in black sumie-togidashi, dice in silver; flowers of hira-makie in gold and silver, and red lacquer; interior of lid and box with dwnse nashiji. Design on two interior boxes in hiramakie in gold of various shades, interiors with dense nashiji, rims with kinji
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Exhibitions
| 2014-2016 | From Rye to Raphael: The Walters Story. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 4/2/2014 | Examination | examined for exhibition |
Geographies
Japan (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 9/16 × W: 2 1/16 × D: 1 9/16 in. (1.5 × 5.3 × 4 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.
67.94.5