Fragment Mounted as a Box Cover with a Scene from Amida's Paradise
1100s
Maker Unknown
Japanese Art
Fragment Mounted as a Box Cover with a Scene from Amida's Paradise, 1100s. Japan, Heian period (794–1185). Gold lacquer on wood; overall: 2.6 x 7.8 cm (1 x 3 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1961.91 The lid of this box has a fragment of an image representing the Pure Land of the Buddha Amida, and an interior decorated with lotus petals. The original, complete composition may have been a panel housed within a shrine cabinet, and used for meditation. An aversion to discarding sacred images likely led to the fragment’s incorporation into this small box.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Lacquer
- Formatted Medium
- gold lacquer on wood
- Dimensions
- Overall: 2.6 x 7.8 cm (1 x 3 1/16 in.)
- Departments
- Japanese Art
- Accession Number
- 1961.91
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- Japanese Decorative Style, Year in Review (1961), Japanese Arts of the Heian Period, Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection, <em>Japanese Arts of the Heian Period: 794-1185</em>. Asia House Gallery, New York City, NY (October 5-December 17, 1967) and Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (January 17-February 25, 1968)., <em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 236)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH (June 13, 2013-December 20, 2013)
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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