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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

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.