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Cover for Oblong Box, 17th Century

  • Ryukyuan, Japanese

Black lacquer wood with litharge painting

  • box and cover: 5 x 14 5/8 x 3 in. 12.7 x 37.3 x 7.6 cm

Founders Society Purchase with funds from anonymous donor

1985.9.B

Department

Asian Art

Details

Mr. Ikeda Iwao, Tokyo

Arakawa Hirokazu and Tokugawa Yoshinobu, RYUKYU SHIKKOGEI, Tokyo, 1977, pl 299 (color), pl 299, p 299.

Ryukyuan, Japanese, Cover for Oblong Box, 17th Century, Black lacquer wood with litharge painting. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from anonymous donor, 1985.9.B.

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