胡蝶蒔絵料紙箱|Document Box with a Scene from the “Butterflies” Chapter of The Tale of Genji

Medium

Lacquered wood with gold and silver takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, togidashimaki-e, cut-out gold foil on nashiji and gold ground

Dimensions

H. 6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm); W. 13 3/4 in. (34.9 cm); L. 17 1/2 in. (44.5 cm)

Classification

Lacquer

Culture & Period

Japan · Meiji period (1868–1912)

Department

Asian Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Anonymous Gift, from the Collection of the late Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin DeWitt Riegel, 1981

Accession Number

1981.243.1a–f

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