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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1996.242.9.A-W
Title
Drawered Hand Box (Tebako) with Four-Season Motif Design and Various Interior Cosmetic Boxes with Scrolling Floral Designs
Other Titles
Transliterated Title: Tebako
Classification
Boxes
Work Type
box
Date
Early Edo period, late 17th - early 18th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/200297

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), nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground), and harigaki (linear incising) techniques, and with applied kirigane (cut gold and silver) and shibuchi (copper-silver alloy); metal fittings
Dimensions
14.1 x 18.7 x 27.2 cm (5 9/16 x 7 3/8 x 10 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Elaine Ehrenkranz, Plantation, FL, (by 1996), gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1996.

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
1996.242.9.A-W
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. 56-61, cat. 9

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
  • Rocks, Mountains, Landscapes and Gardens: The Essence of East Asian Painting ('04), Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 01/31/2004 - 08/01/2004
  • Re-View: S228-230 (Asian rotation: 2), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 04/23/2009 - 10/25/2009
  • 32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 05/31/2015; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/23/2022 - 12/05/2022

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