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Pair of Pillows with Nightmare Eating Baku Designlate Edo period, circa 1800

Not on view
Pair of Japanese lacquerware stands with nashiji gold-flecked panels, concave rose-red sides with diamond lattice pattern, and gold elephant-and-foliage decoration
Pair of Japanese lacquer pillow rests with concave curved forms, deep red textile-patterned surfaces, and gold nashiji sprinkled backgrounds; one shows a gold makie design of a boar beneath flowering branches on its flat end panel.
Pair of Japanese lacquer pillow-shaped boxes with concave tops, gold nashiji ground decorated with horses and foliage in raised gold maki-e, interiors lined with pink silk brocade in a geometric pattern.
Japanese lacquer pillow with concave red silk brocade surface featuring diamond geometric patterns; gold-ground maki-e panels on each end depicting an elephant among foliage.
Japanese lacquer headrest with concave silk-covered center in red-pink woven diamond pattern; gold nashiji lacquer end panels decorated with a maki-e design of a shishi lion-dog among flowering branches

Unknown, Pair of Pillows with Nightmare Eating Baku Design, late Edo period, circa 1800, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Sue Tsao, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Unknown
Title
Pair of Pillows with Nightmare Eating Baku Design
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
late Edo period, circa 1800
Period
Edo period (1603-1868)
Medium
Wood and bamboo with gold, silver, and red lacquer
Dimensions
[each] 5 3/8 x 7 7/8 x 3 1/2 in. (13.65 x 20 x 8.89 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Sue Tsao
Accession Number
M.2013.19.1-.2
Classification
Lacquer
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Goodall, Hollis, and Robert T. Singer. "Art of Asia Acquired by North American Museums, 2012-2013: Los Angeles County Museum of Art." Archives of Asian Art 64, no.2 (2014): 236-244.
  • Singer, Robert T., and Kawai Masatomo, editors. The Life of Animals in Japanese Art. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2019.