Bean pod-shaped Incense Box, anonymous, anonymous, c. 1800 - c. 1899

Identification

Title(s)

Bean pod-shaped Incense Box
Incense box in the shape of a legume

Object type

incense box

Object number

AK-MAK-710

Description

Wierookdoos van steengoed, bedekt met een paars glazuur en ingelegd met ivoor[?], parelmoer, rood- en goudlak. Op de deksel een bloemtak. Kyoyaki[?].

Creation

Artist

anonymous

Place

Japan

Dating

c. 1800 - c. 1899

School / style

Edo-period (1600-1868)

Material and Technique

Material

Technique

formed / fired / lacquering / inlay (process) / vitrification

Measurements

height 2.1 cm
height 1.3 cm × length 11.2 cm × width 3.5 cm
height 1.2 cm × length 10.7 cm × width 3.2 cm

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (Westendorp-Osieck bequest, 1968)

Acquisition

loan 1972

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; collection of Herman Karel Westendorp (1868-1941), Amsterdam, 1941;{Note RMA.} his widow Betsy Westendorp-Osieck (1880-1968), Amsterdam, by whom bequeathed to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, 1968;{note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1972

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Asiatic art in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, p. 113, cat.nr. 114
Menno Fitski, 'Spelen met versiering en vorm: Japans keramiek en lak in Rinpa-stijl', Aziatische Kunst 34/3 (2004), pp. 32-35.

Persistent URL

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