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Basketwork Box with Ivy

mid-19th century
Not on view
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.

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Object Information
  • 蔦蒔絵竹細工箱
  • Title: Basketwork Box with Ivy
  • Period: Edo (1615–1868) or Meiji period (1868–1912)
  • Date: mid-19th century
  • Culture: Japan
  • Medium: Bamboo, and lacquer, with gold and silver hiramaki-e with red lacquer accents
  • Dimensions: H. 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm); W. 5 1/2 in. (14 cm); L. 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm)
  • Classification: Lacquer
  • Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
  • Object Number: 91.1.637
  • Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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