古満巨柳作 鷹蒔絵印籠|Inrō with Hawks on Perches

Koma Kōryū

19th century

古満巨柳作 鷹蒔絵印籠|Inrō with Hawks on Perches by Koma Kōryū

Medium

Black lacquer ground with gold and silver togidashi, takamaki-e and hiramaki-e, red lacquer, and applied gold and silver foil Netsuke: gourd; guri lacquer, silver ring and stopper in chrysanthemum shape Ojime: butterfly and flower; cloisonné bead

Dimensions

2 15/16 x 2 5/8 x 3/4 in. (7.4 x 6.7 x 1.9 cm)

Classification

Inrō

Culture & Period

Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)

Department

Asian Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929

Accession Number

29.100.745

Tags

Hawks

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...

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