Egg-shaped box
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Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Egg-shaped, covered box; inside 'makiye' (aventurine) lacquer; outside cream and gold 'nashiji' ground decorated with swallows, maple leaves, and phoenix in gold
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Mrs. John Innes Kane
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1926-37-24
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Decorative Arts
- Egg-shaped box
- Medium
- lacquered wood
- Dimensions
- H x L: 8 × 11.6 cm (3 1/8 × 4 9/16 in.)
- Place
- Japan
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1926-37-24
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq433914199-b1ab-4e7f-8962-e3de050a784f
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