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

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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
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.