Writing Box with Design of Ox-Herding Boy Playing Flute

Medium

Gold and silver maki-e with colored lacquer on red lacquer

Dimensions

H. 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm); W. 7 1/ 2 in. (19.1 cm); L. 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm)

Classification

Lacquer

Culture & Period

Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)

Department

Asian Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Mrs. George A. Crocker (Elizabeth Masten), 1937

Accession Number

38.25.106a–d

Rights

Public Domain

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