A Lacquer Incense Container (Kogo)

EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)

細節

A Lacquer Incense Container (Kogo)
Edo period (18th century)
Square with canted edges and decorated in various shades of gold hiramaki-e with embellishments of hirame and kirigane with an over-all design of maple leaves floating between rocks in a stream, interior with pine trees on a shoreline; pewter rims
2¾ x 2¾ x 1 3/8in. (7 x 7 x 3.8cm.)

來源

Charles A. Greenfield, New York

展覽

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, "Japanese Lacquer, 1660-1900, Selections from the Charles A. Greenfield Collection," 1980.9.4--10.19

拍品專文

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.