Four-case inro with design of carp leaping up a waterfall
early to mid-19th century
Medium/TechniqueBlack lacquer ground; decoration in gold, silver, black and red hiramaki-e and takamaki-e with dense kinpun and gold kirikane; containers and risers gold nashiji, shoulders and rims gold fundame
DimensionsOverall: 7.7 x 5 cm
Credit LineCharles Goddard Weld Collection
Accession number11.5888a
On View
Not on viewClassificationsInro
Collections
Provenance1890, Charles Goddard Weld Collection; bequest to MFA, Boston, December 7, 1911.
Yamada Taigyo
early to mid-19th century
mid-late 18th century
early to mid-18th century
Late 17th–early 18th century
mid-late 18th century
early to mid-19th century
Late 18th–early 19th century
