The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Stack of Five Writing Boxes, Top Cover with Design of Plum Blossoms, Frame Cover with Design of Yamabuki Flowers

Art Object

Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts

Part of a Sunday at the Met held in conjunction with the exhibition Designing Nature: The Rinpa Aesthetic in Japanese Art, on view May 26, 2012–January 13, 2013, this lecture features Haruo Shirane, the Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.

Recorded September 30, 2012

The exhibition is made possible by The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation.
The catalogue is made possible by the Richard and Geneva Hofheimer Memorial Fund.

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Stack of Five Writing Boxes, Top Cover with Design of Plum Blossoms, Frame Cover with Design of Yamabuki Flowers

Period:: Edo period (1615–1868)
Date:: 19th century
Culture:: Japan
Medium:: Gold maki-e on black lacquer
Dimensions:: H. 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm); W. 6 3/4 in. (17.1 cm); D. 10 1/4 in. (26 cm)
Classification:: Lacquer
Credit Line:: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881
Accession Number:: 81.1.136a–z

This artwork is not on display

Provenance

Stephen Whitney Phoenix , New York (until d. 1881)
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What
Metal (59,364)

Gold (12,457)

Boxes (1,778)

Lacquer (1,745)

Maki-e (179)
Where
Asia (68,071)

Japan (21,819)
When
A.D. 1800-1900 (80,185)
In the Museum
Asian Art (35,222)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Japan, 1800–1900 A.D.