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Writing Table (Bundai) with Melons and Squirrels

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Lacquered wood with gold hiramaki-e and e-nashiji (“pear-skin picture”), Edo period (1615–1868), 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: Writing Table (Bundai) with Melons and Squirrels
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Lacquered wood with gold hiramaki-e and e-nashiji (“pear-skin picture”), Edo period (1615–1868), Japan.

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