Rights clearance desk for images
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Where this page got its records
413 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
370 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 409 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Case (Inrō) with Design of Bean Vine and Moon
Shiomi Masanari 塩見政誠 (d. 1719)
early 18th century · Case: gold on black lacquer with mother-of-pearl inlay; Fastener (ojime): gold with design of crabs, reed, and rock; Toggle (netsuke): ivory carved in the shape of a reclining bull (signed: Ran’ichi)
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō ) with Design of a Gourd Vine
Koma Yasutada
18th century · Case: gold, colored lacquer, gold leaf, and gold foil on red lacquer; Fastener (ojime): metal with design of flowers and insects; Toggle (netsuke): ivory and lacquer carved in the shape of a Noh dancer
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Bean Vine
Mochizuki Hanzan (d. 1790)
18th century · Case: powdered gold (maki-e) on lacquer with ceramic, lead, and mother-of-pearl inlays; ceramic seal on base; Fastener (ojime): alloy of silver and copper with design of mice in rice cakes; Toggle (netsuke): lacquer with design of lotus leaf and caterpillar in lead and ivory inlays
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Clamshells and Fireflies
Koma Yasutada
late 18th century · Case: powdered gold and silver (maki-e) and gold foil on red lacquer with mother-of-pearl inlay; Fastener (ojime): silver with design of bird and flowers in gold; Toggle (netsuke): carved ivory and colored lacquer with design of Daikoku in ivory and carnelian inlays
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Clematis Vine on Bamboo Lattice
Gion Nankai (d. 1751)
18th century · Lacquer sprinkled with gold and silver makie, and foil; Ojima: floral scrolls in openwork; silver and silver wire; Netsuke: chrysanthemum medallion; ivory
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Trees, Crow, and Moon
Unrecorded maker
18th century · Takamaki-e with nashiji, gold and silver foil, and silver inlay on black lacquer; Interior: nashiji and fundame; Ojime: bead of inlaid metals and alloys; Netsuke: flowers, moon, and poem in gold lacquer on dark wood (signed: Designed by Hoitsu)
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Flowers and Grasses
Unrecorded maker
19th century · Lacquer, roiro, gold and silver hiramakie; Interior: nashiji and fundame
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Geese and Reeds
Unrecorded maker
18th–19th century · Lacquer, roiro, gold and red hiramakie, aogai, white lacquer; Interior: roiro and fundame
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Gourd Vine
Unrecorded maker
19th century · Wood, carved relief, incised, stained; Interior: dark brown
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Saddle and Stirrups
Unrecorded maker
18th–19th century · Lacquer, brown ground, gold, black and silver hiramakie, metal inlay; Interior: nashiji and fundame
Cleared · Public Domain
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
Case (Inrō) with Design of Fagots and Basket
Unrecorded maker
18th century · Wood and lacquer
In copyright
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
Case (Inrō) with Design of Fan and Chrysanthemums
Unrecorded maker
18th century · Lacquer, roiro, nashiji, tsuishu, gold hiramakie, ceramic inlay; Interior: roiro, nashiji and fundame
In copyright
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