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Box and cover with design of the Eight Buddhist Symbols

Box and cover with design of the Eight Buddhist Symbols

1403-24

Carved red lacquer on wood
Diameter: 5 3/8 in. (13.7cm)
Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection
51.102
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryTokyo, Japan, Suntory Museum of Art, Luminous Jewels: Masterpieces of Asian Art From the Seattle Art Museum, July 25 - Sept. 6, 2009 (Kobe, Japan, Kobe City Museum, Sept. 19 - Dec. 6, 2009; Kofu, Japan, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Dec. 23, 2009 - Feb. 28, 2010; Atami, Japan, MOA Museum of Art, Mar. 13 - May 9, 2010; Fukuoka, Japan, Fukuoka Art Museum, May 23 - July 19, 2010).
Published ReferencesS.A.M. Engagement Book, July 1968

Garner, Harry M. "The Export of Chinese Lacquer to Japan in the Yüan and Early Ming Dynasties," in Archives of Asian Art, Vol. 25 (1971-1972), pp. 6-28, figs. 7a, 7b, p. 19

H. Trubner, William., J. Rathbun and C. A. Kaputa. "Asiatic Art in the Seattle Art Museum," (1973), p. 181, no .141 (color plate p. 63)

"Selected Works." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1991, p. 165

Knight, Michael, "East Asian Lacquers in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1992, no. 7, p. 12

Kawai, Masatomo, Yasuhiro Nishioka, Yukiko Sirahara, editors. "Luminous Jewels: Masterpieces of Asian Art From the Seattle Art Museum". The Yomiuri Shimbun, 2009, catalogue number 69

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