蔦蒔絵竹細工箱|Basketwork Box with Ivy

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mid-19th century · Bamboo, and lacquer, with gold and silver hiramaki-e with red lacquer accents · Asian Art

The lid of this document box features fine strips of bamboo covered in lacquer and then decorated with a stylized autumn ivy vine design. A similar ivy motif appears on a silver Tiffany teapot (combined with a dragonfly) made about 1878; an early inventory suggests that Moore may have acquired this box that year at the Paris Exposition. A box like this is also mentioned in discussions of the colors Tiffany aspired to create in the Conglomerate Vase.

Artist

Unknown

Date

mid-19th century

Medium

Bamboo, and lacquer, with gold and silver hiramaki-e with red lacquer accents

Culture

Japan

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891