橋姫蒔絵硯箱|Writing Box (Suzuribako) with “The Lady of the Bridge” Design

Medium

Lacquered wood with gold and silver takamaki-e and hiramaki-e, and silver inlay on gold nashiji (“pear-skin”) ground

Dimensions

H. 1 in. (2.5 cm); W. 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm); L. 6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm)

Classification

Lacquer

Culture & Period

Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)

Department

Asian Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation, 2015

Accession Number

2015.300.284a–d

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