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Incense Box (Kogo) with Pines and Plovers

Lacquered wood with gold togidashimaki-e on nashiji (“pear-skin” ground), Nanbokuchō period (1336–92), Japan

Rights: Public Domain

Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Mary Griggs Burke Collection Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation 2015

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Title: Incense Box (Kogo) with Pines and Plovers

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Lacquered wood with gold togidashimaki-e on nashiji (“pear-skin” ground), Nanbokuchō period (1336–92), Japan.

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