梟鴉蒔絵印籠|Inrō with Owl and Crows in Tree

Medium

Black lacquer ground with gold and silver togidashi maki-e and e-nashiji Netsuke: seal-shaped with sheaf of rice around peony with pecking bird; ivory Ojime: woven ball; caved and pierced bone

Dimensions

H. 3 3/4 in. (9.6 cm); W. 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm); 1 1/8 in. (2.8 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

29.100.804

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