1996.242.49.A-V: Incense-Game Set (Kōdōgubako) in the Form of a Birdcage with Flying Cuckoo Design
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1996.242.49.A-V
- Title
- Incense-Game Set (Kōdōgubako) in the Form of a Birdcage with Flying Cuckoo Design
- Other Titles
- Transliterated Title: Kōdōgubako (Jūshu Kōbako)
- Classification
- Boxes
- Work Type
- box
- Date
- Muromachi and Edo period, 16th and 18th centuries
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Edo period, 1615-1868
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/195636
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold and silver utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design), and nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground) techniques, and with silver and raden (mother-of-pearl) inlays; metal fittings
- Dimensions
- 22.3 x 25.4 x 19.5 cm (8 3/4 x 10 x 7 11/16 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
- 1996.242.49.A-V
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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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
- 32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/04/2015 - 11/29/2015; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/29/2021 - 07/17/2022
Verification Level
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