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Inrō with Design of Blossoming Plum Tree
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Sprinkled gold lacquer with gold silver and red makie takamakie and coral inlay
Ojime: bead; tortoiseshell
Netsuke: box with decoration of violets; gold makie lacquer with gold and silver makie, Edo period (1615–1868), Japan
Rights: Public Domain
Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, The Howard Mansfield Collection Purchase Rogers Fund 1936
Title: Inrō with Design of Blossoming Plum Tree
Description:
Sprinkled gold lacquer with gold silver and red makie takamakie and coral inlay
Ojime: bead; tortoiseshell
Netsuke: box with decoration of violets; gold makie lacquer with gold and silver makie, Edo period (1615–1868), Japan.
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