Box for Personal Accessories (Tebako) with Shells and Seaweed Design
Boxes of this shape were used as early as the twelfth century to hold personal accessories such as combs. From the seventeenth century onward, groups of such boxes were part of the extensive sets of lacquered furnishings found in the trousseaus of the elite and of the expanding merchant class.
Artwork Details
- 岸蒔絵手箱
- Title: Box for Personal Accessories (Tebako) with Shells and Seaweed Design
- Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
- Date: 17th century
- Culture: Japan
- Medium: Lacquered wood with gold hiramaki-e, and e-nashiji on black lacquer ground
- Dimensions: H. 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm); W. 8 5/8 in. (21.9 cm); L. 10 1/4 in. (26 cm)
- Classification: Lacquer
- Credit Line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015
- Object Number: 2015.500.2.32a, b
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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