About the Artwork
Matchlock Gun
ca. 1600
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Japanese
Japanese
Wood with lacquer
Overall: 51 inches (129.5 cm)
Lacquer
Asian Art
Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford II Fund, and funds from W. Warren Shelden, Walter B. Ford II, Great Lakes Gas Transmission Company, Wilber H. Mack, Wendell W. Anderson, Jr., Stanley R. Day, Ralph T. McElvenny, The Stroh Foundation, Clune J. Walsh, Jr., and other contributors
1988.17
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Provenance
Yasuda Yukihiko. (Klaus F. Naumann)
1988-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Kawada, Sadamu. NEGORO LACQUER. Kyoto: Shikosha, 1985, p. 334, ill. 53.
Kawada, Sadamu. "Negoro," NIHON NO BIJUTSU. 1977, vol. 120, ill. 180.
Arakawa, Hirokazu. NEGORO. Atami Art Museum, 1966, no. 118.
Bulletin of the DIA 64, no. 2/3. 1988, p. 30, fig. 20, (ill).
Augustin, Birgitta and Masako Watanabe. “Transforming Power: Art and Arts of Japan's Warriors.” Bulletin of the DIA 88, no. 1/4 (2014): pp. 8-9 (fig. 9).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Japanese, Matchlock Gun, ca. 1600, wood with lacquer. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford II Fund, and funds from W. Warren Shelden, et al., 1988.17.
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