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19th century · Gold and silver maki-e and kirikane on black lacquer ground · Asian Art

This box with two compartments and an interior tray would have contained incense and the implements used in the traditional game of discriminating different fragrances of incense. Its landscape decoration of rolling hills covered with flowering cherry trees and a swift-flowing stream are motifs associated with the Yoshino mountains south of Nara, long celebrated in Japanese art and poetry.

Artist

Unknown

Date

19th century

Medium

Gold and silver maki-e and kirikane on black lacquer ground

Culture

Japan

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Gift of Mrs. Charles Page, 1922