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
On View
Not on viewClassificationsInro
Collections
Provenance1890, Charles Goddard Weld Collection; bequest to MFA, Boston, December 7, 1911.
Early 19th century
Late 19th century
Late 19th century
Early 19th century
Early 19th century
Late 18th–early 19th century
Late 17th–early 18th century
early - mid-19th century
mid-19th century
Early 19th century
Late 19th century
Early 19th century