About the Artwork
Ewer
16th century
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Japanese
Japanese
Lacquer on wood with makie (sprinkled gold powder)
Overall: 5 1/4 × 10 × 6 inches (13.3 × 25.4 × 15.2 cm)
Lacquer
Asian Art
Founders Society Purchase, Charles M. Endicott Memorial Fund
1986.5
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Provenance
(Harry Packard)
1986-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 62, no. 3, 1986, p. 20 (fig. 11), pl. II.
Mitchell, S. "A portfolio of East Asian lacquers," APOLLO, vol. 124, no. 298. December 1986, pp. 76-77 (ill).
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Japanese, Ewer, 16th century, lacquer on wood with makie (sprinkled gold powder). Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Charles M. Endicott Memorial Fund, 1986.5.
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