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Lot Essay
PUBLISHED:
Andrew J. Pekarik, Japanese Lacquer, 1600-1900, Selections from the Charles A. Greenfield Collection, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980), fig. 33.
The image of maple leaves floating on a stream is drawn from classical Japanese poetry. From as early as the Heian period, maple leaves were closely linked with the Tatsuta River near Nara, the ancient capital.
Andrew J. Pekarik, Japanese Lacquer, 1600-1900, Selections from the Charles A. Greenfield Collection, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980), fig. 33.
The image of maple leaves floating on a stream is drawn from classical Japanese poetry. From as early as the Heian period, maple leaves were closely linked with the Tatsuta River near Nara, the ancient capital.