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Covered box

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Covered box

18th century

Japanese

The golden flakes that resemble the speckles of a Japanese pear are called nashiji-ko. Nashiji lacquer flourished in the Muromachi period (1336-1573), when an object's entire ground was flecked with the copper-orange flakes. By the Edo period, the designs were more varied, with irregular bands of nashiji-ko applied in abstract patterns.

Lacquer and bronze
5 3/4 x 5 x 5 3/4 in. (14.6 x 12.7 x 14.6cm)
Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection
34.81.20
location
Not currently on view

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