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Anonymous
Box with "Tale of Genji" Designcirca 1800

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Japanese lacquered document box with maki-e gold landscape depicting a pavilion, pine trees, flowering shrubs, and a patterned fence, with a vertical cartouche of Japanese characters on the front face
Artist or Maker
Anonymous
Title
Box with "Tale of Genji" Design
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
circa 1800
Period
Edo period (1603 - 1868)
Medium
Lacquer on wood core with maki-e (sprinkled powder design)
Dimensions
Overall: 2 x 8 1/2 x 6 in. (5 x 21.5 x 15.2 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Stanley and Fay Bergerman
Accession Number
M.88.218a-b
Classification
Lacquer
Collecting Area
Japanese Art