Writing Box with Design of Elderly Couple under Pine from the Noh Play Takasago

Medium

Gold maki-e with colored lacquer on black lacquer

Dimensions

H. 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm); W. 8 in. (20.3 cm); D. 9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm)

Classification

Lacquer

Culture & Period

Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)

Department

Asian Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913

Accession Number

14.40.876a–e

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