Rights clearance desk for images
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Where this page got its records
1380 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
297 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
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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 a Flowering Cherry Tree
Unrecorded maker
19th century · Lacquer, dark brown, nashiji, gold and silver hiramakie; Interior: nashiji and fundame
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Blossoming Cherry Tree
Unrecorded maker
19th century · Lacquer, fundame, gold and silver hiramakie, nashiji, togidashi and kirigane; Interior: fundame and silver metal labels inside each case
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Cherry Trees with a Shintō Shrine
Unrecorded maker
19th century · Colored lacquer, and gold, silver, blue, and red togidashi on black lacquer
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Cherry-Blossom Viewing
Kajikawa School
late 18th–19th century · Lacquer decorated with togidashi sprinkled and polished lacquer; Ojime: stone bead with silver bird inlay; Netsuke: metal button engraved with figure of Fukurokuju
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Flowering Weeping Cherry Branches
Unrecorded maker
18th–19th century · Lacquer, roiro, nashiji, gold and silver hiramakie, takamakie; Interior: nashiji and fundame
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Hilly Landscape with Maple and Cherry Trees beside a River
Unrecorded maker
19th century · Lacquer, kinji, gold, silver, black and brown hiramakie, takamakie and togidashi; Interior: nashiji and fundame
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Horses among Cherry Blossom Trees
Unrecorded maker
18th–19th century · Lacquer, nashiji, gold, silver, black and brown hiramakie, takamakie; Interior: nashiji and fundame
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Two Horses Beneath Flowering Cherry Tree
Unrecorded maker
19th century · Lacquer, roiro, nashiji, aogai, gold foil; Interior: nashiji and fundame
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Weeping Cherry Tree
Unrecorded maker
19th century · Lacquer, roiro, gold and silver hiramakie, gold foil, nashiji and togidashi; Interior: nashiji and fundame
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Weeping Willow and Cherry Blossoms
Nakayama Komin (d. 1870)
19th century · Hiramaki-e with nashiji on black lacquer, roiro, nashiji, gold and silver hiramakie, gold and silver foil; Interior: nashiji and fundame; Ojime: ivory bead with vines and grasses in gold lacquer; Netsuke: woven basket with shell and gold lacquer)
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Young Pine Trees
Unrecorded maker
18th–19th century · Lacquer, kinji, gold and silver hiramakie, takamakie; Interior: nashiji and fundame
Cleared · Public Domain
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