Three-case inro in the form of an old Chinese ink-cake
mid-19th century
Medium/TechniqueBrown-black lacquer ground with decoration in takamaki-e of the same color; compartments and risers black lacquer; shoulders and rims gold fundame
DimensionsOverall: 7.5 x 5.4 x 2.3 cm (2 15/16 x 2 1/8 x 7/8 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession number11.10020a
On View
Not on viewClassificationsInro
Collections
NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.
mid-18th century
mid-late 18th century
early 18th century
Early 19th century
Late 17th–early 18th century
Tatsuke Takamitsu
Late 18th century
Hasegawa Shigeyoshi
Late 18th–early 19th century
early to mid-19th century
