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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1996.242.44.A-B
Title
Poem-Slip Box (Shikishibako) with Plum Tree and Triple-Hollyhock Crest Design
Other Titles
Transliterated Title: Shikishibako
Classification
Boxes
Work Type
box
Date
Mid Edo period, 18th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/195253

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold, silver, and sabi urushi (thick lacquer paste) utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design), nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground), and kanagai (sheet-gold appliqué) techniques, and with applied kirigane (cut gold and silver)
Dimensions
5.8 x 21.5 x 22.9 cm (2 5/16 x 8 7/16 x 9 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Elaine Ehrenkranz Collection of Japanese Lacquer Boxes; Gift of Elaine Ehrenkranz
Accession Year
1996
Object Number
1996.242.44.A-B
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Barbara Teri Okada, Symbol and Substance in Japanese Lacquer: Lacquer Boxes from the Collection of Elaine Ehrenkranz, exh. cat., Weatherhill Inc. (New York, 1995), pp. 144-145, cat. 44

Exhibition History

  • Symbol and Substance: The Elaine Ehrenkranz Collection of Japanese Lacquer Boxes, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/29/1998 - 01/03/1999; Bruce Museum, Greenwich, 12/10/2000 - 02/18/2001

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