Writing Box with Design of Six Poets under a Cherry Tree and a Pine

Medium

Gold and silver maki-e, colored lacquer, and mother-of-pearl inlay on black lacquer

Dimensions

H. 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm); W. 8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm); L. 8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm)

Classification

Lacquer

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

29.100.693

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