Writing Box with Design of Six Poets under a Cherry Tree and a Pine

Medium

Gold and silver maki-e, colored lacquer, and mother-of-pearl inlay on black lacquer

Dimensions

H. 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm); W. 8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm); L. 8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm)

Classification

Lacquer

Culture & Period

Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)

Department

Asian Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929

Accession Number

29.100.693

Rights

Public Domain

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