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Nine Chinese Gentlemen in a Garden
Iron inlaid with brocade patterns and plum blossoms in shibuichi. Nine gentlemen near a stream, with names and ages inscribed in plaques, in taka-bori of gold, shibuichi and copper. One is reading a book at a table. Decoration inlaid and applied(?) Signed on lid with two seals after the signature. Inside the lid the Thousand Character Essay is inscribed. A three-clawed dragon is inlaid in gold zogan on the bottom and inside the box with a poem about the dragon inscribed on the inner sides
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Provenance
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S.Colman?; Acquired by Henry Walters before 1931
Geographies
Japan (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Overall: 12 3/8 in. (31.4 cm)
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.
52.199