岸蒔絵手箱|Box for Personal Accessories (Tebako) with Shells and Seaweed Design

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17th century · Lacquered wood with gold hiramaki-e, and e-nashiji on black lacquer ground · Asian Art

Boxes of this shape were used as early as the twelfth century to hold personal accessories such as combs. From the seventeenth century onward, groups of such boxes were part of the extensive sets of lacquered furnishings found in the trousseaus of the elite and of the expanding merchant class.

Artist

Unknown

Date

17th century

Medium

Lacquered wood with gold hiramaki-e, and e-nashiji on black lacquer ground

Culture

Japan

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015