Writing Box with Spitting Courtesan
early to mid-1800s
Maker Unknown
Japanese Art
Writing Box with Spitting Courtesan, early to mid-1800s. Japan, Edo period (1615-1868). Lacquered wood with maki-e (image made of sprinkled gold dust); box: 21.6 x 19.8 x 3.2 cm (8 1/2 x 7 13/16 x 1 1/4 in.); closed: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.); cover: 20.7 x 20.7 cm (8 1/8 x 8 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Worcester R. Warner Collection 1963.260
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Lacquer
- Formatted Medium
- Lacquered wood with maki-e (image made of sprinkled gold dust)
- Dimensions
- Box: 21.6 x 19.8 x 3.2 cm (8 1/2 x 7 13/16 x 1 1/4 in.); Closed: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.); Cover: 20.7 x 20.7 cm (8 1/8 x 8 1/8 in.)
- Departments
- Japanese Art
- Accession Number
- 1963.260
- Credit Line
- Worcester R. Warner Collection
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review (1963), The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art, Japan's Floating World (Japanese art rotation) 235
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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