Card-case with design of carp and landscape
mid to late 19th century
Medium/TechniqueCarp side: black lacquer ground with kinpun, ao-kinpun and gold hirame, decorated in gold, aokin and colored hiramaki-e and takamaki-e with encrustations of shell and other materials; landscape side similar but with gold kirikane also; compartments and risers gold nashiji; shoulders and rims gold fundame
DimensionsOverall: 10.7 x 6.8 x 1.3 cm (4 3/16 x 2 11/16 x 1/2 in.)
Credit LineCharles Goddard Weld Collection
Accession number11.5825
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Provenance1890, Charles Goddard Weld Collection; bequest to MFA, Boston, December 7, 1911.
Kajikawa School
Late 18th–early 19th century
Early 19th century
