Case (Inrō) with Design of Curtains of State and a Woman's Fan
late 18th–19th century
Medium
Roiro (waxen) lacquer with decoration in togisashi sprinkled and polished lacquer; Ojime: gold lacquer bead; Netsuke: ivory "Dream of a Clam"
Dimensions
H. 3 3/16 in. (8.1 cm); W. 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm); D. 15/16 in. ( 2.4 cm)
Classification
Inrō
Culture & Period
Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Wilton Lloyd-Smith and his wife, Marjorie Fleming Lloyd-Smith, 1929
Accession Number
29.82.3
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About the Artist
Koma Kōryū · ?–1796
**Koma Kōryū** (d. 1796), born Kimura Shichiemon, was a distinguished Japanese lacquer artist of the Edo period, renowned for his mastery of maki-e inrō. Little is known of his early life, which remains sparsely documented, but he rose to prominence through his close ties to the illustrious Koma family, a dynasty of lacquerers serving the Tokugawa shogunate since the 17th century. Adopted into the...