MAKE A MEME View Large Image Japanese - Set of Boxes for Storing Incense Wood - Walters 6783 - Open.jpg A black and gold lacquer rectangular ko bako with overlapping lid cusped midway on two long sides; interior with six small covered boxes On top of lid are four carp ...
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Keywords: Japanese - Set of Boxes for Storing Incense Wood - Walters 6783 - Open.jpg A black and gold lacquer rectangular ko bako with overlapping lid cusped midway on two long sides; interior with six small covered boxes On top of lid are four carp in a stream with low growth of water plants; interior boxes have designs on top of lids of streams and ponds with various groups of trees and flowers bird and butterflies; exterior sides of covered boxes with four different patterns of arabesques diaper asanoha brocade and swastika Design on top of lid in gold and brown togidashi of various shades with fish in hiramakie on gold and red lacquer; flowers in gold and red lacquer with inlaid aogai; background of black roiro with nashiji Six small interior boxes with hiramakie in gold interior and bottoms with nashiji; interior of main box with dense nashiji and applied gold and silver foils; all in highly polished lacquer rims with kinji late 19th-early 20th century Meiji lacquer aogai gold and silver foil cm 4 4 10 9 13 1 accession number 67 83 23298 World's Fair St Louis Missouri 1904 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1904 none Imperial Japan The Art of the Meiji Era 1868-1912 Herbert F Johnson Ithaca; Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute- Museum of Art Utica; Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati; Portland Art Museum Portland 1980-1981 place of origin Japan Walters Art Museum license Art of Japan in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Carps in art Kōbako
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