Tray with rice stalks and a grasshopper on a tea kettle
Shibata Zeshin
1880s
Medium
Lacquered wood; gold, silver, red, yellow, black hiramaki-e and takamaki-e on “bronze imitation” (seido-nuri) ground
Dimensions
L. 14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm)
Classification
Lacquer
Culture & Period
Japan · Meiji period (1868–1912)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Bequest of Henrie Jo Barth, William R. Appleby Fund, and Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Spielman, by exchange, 2019
Accession Number
2019.107
About the Artist
Shibata Zeshin · 1807–1891
Japanese, 1807–1891