Object data
nishikie, with metallic pigments and tsuyazuri
height 133 mm × width 196 mm
anonymous
Tea Caddy in Cloth Wrapper
Japan, Japan, c. 1820 - c. 1830
Provenance
…; purchased from the dealer Bernard Haase, London, by J.H.W. Goslings (1943-2011), Epse, near Deventer, 1993;1 by whom donated to the museum, 1995
Object number: RP-P-1995-300
Credit line: Gift of J.H.W. Goslings, Epse
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
A tea caddy, chaire, in an exquisite brocade-cloth wrapper, decorated with stylised chrysanthemums and paulownias. Next to it a spray of cherries.
The chrysanthemums allude to the Imperial chrysanthemum crest, kiku no gomon, the paulownias to the Imperial paulownia crest, kiri no gomon.
Judging from the printing technique, this exquisitely printed design seems to have been made in Osaka. The spray of cherries is printed without a line-block. The design is printed on crêped paper.
One poem by Sanjuroku Uroko.
Issued by the poet
Unsigned
Literature
M. Forrer, Surimono in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Leiden 2013, no. 220
Citation
M. Forrer, 2013, 'anonymous, Tea Caddy in Cloth Wrapper, Japan, c. 1820 - c. 1830', in Surimono from the Goslings Collection in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.318716
(accessed 22 September 2024 05:25:16).