1996.242.33.A-D: Medicine-Container (Inrō) Shaped Box with Sword-Guard (Tsuba) Design
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1996.242.33.A-D
- Title
- Medicine-Container (Inrō) Shaped Box with Sword-Guard (Tsuba) Design
- Other Titles
- Transliterated Title: Inrō
- Classification
- Boxes
- Work Type
- box
- Date
- Momoyama period, late 16th century-early 17th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Momoyama period, 1568-1615
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/200402
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold and sabi urushi (thick lacquer paste) utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design) and takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design) techniques, and with sprinkled raden (mother-of-pearl) flakes
- Dimensions
- 11.1 x 8.5 x 4.6 cm (4 3/8 x 3 3/8 x 1 13/16 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
- 1996.242.33.A-D
- 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
Verification Level
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