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View: Side of box with flowering branch
Set of writing boxes with decoration of spring field and butterflies
View: Side of box with flowering branch

Set of writing boxes with decoration of spring field and butterflies

late 19th century
Medium/TechniqueLacquer on wood with sprinkled gold designs; maki-e
Dimensions23.5 x 26.4 x 15.8 cm
Credit LineBequest of Major Henry Lee Higginson
Accession number21.2373a-bb
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ClassificationsLacquer works
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ProvenanceLent by H.L. Higginson, Dec. 10, 1912
Writing box (suzuribako ) with decoration of grapes and butterfly
Artist unknown, Japanese
late 18th–early 19th century
Group shot: 11.11291-11.11292
Mihara no jû Morimasa
mid 14th century and 19th century
Drum and box with maki-e decoration
Kamisaka Sekka
About 1925