Rights clearance desk for images
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Where this page got its records
701 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
312 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Poppies
Unrecorded maker
1868 · Case: powdered gold (maki-e) and gold and colored lacquer on black lacquer with pewter and ceramic inlays; floral decoration on risers in incised gold; Fastener (ojime): stained wood carved in the shape of a peach; Toggle (netsuke): black lacquer with design of pussy-willow branches in pewter and ceramic inlays and metal wire
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Butterflies
Unrecorded maker
19th century · Lacquer, roiro, gold and coloured togidashi; Interior: fundame
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Butterflies
Unrecorded maker
18th–19th century · Lacquer, gyobu, gold and silver hiramakie, takamakie, raden; Interior: gyobu nashiji and fundame
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Courtier Accompanying Raryōō (obverse); Nobleman Playing Flute (reverse)
Unrecorded maker
19th century · Gold and silver maki-e with gold and colored lacquer
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Courtier Cleaning Another's Ear (obverse); Courtier Laughing (reverse)
Kajikawa Hidetaka
18th–19th century · Lacquer, roiro, gold, brown and red togidashi, nashiji; Netsuke: fukurokuju Interior: nashiji and fundame
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Grapevine
Unrecorded maker
18th–19th century · Case: gold and colored lacquer on black lacquer with mother-of-pearl and pewter inlays; Fastener (ojime): silver vase (signed: Tenni); Toggle: (netsuke): gold with design of cricket and dragonfly with autumn grasses
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Hawk on Tasseled Perch
Unrecorded maker
19th century · Lacquer, roiro, gold and coloured hiramakie, takamakie, raden inlay; Interior: fundame
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Hawks on Tasseled Perches
Kano Terunobu (d. 1763)
19th century · Lacquer, roiro, white lacquer, gold and coloured hiramakie; Interior: nashiji and fundame
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Peacock on Rock with Peonies
Unrecorded maker
19th century · Lacquer, roiro, horn, ivory and cloisonne inlay, Inro: nashiji, togidashi; Interior: gyobu nashiji and fundame
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Seated Courtier beneath Umbrella (obverse) Noh Dancer (reverse)
Unrecorded maker
19th century · Lacquer, kinji, nashiji, gold, red, silver and black hiramakie, ivory inlay; Interior: nashiji and fundame
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Two Hawks on Tasseled Perches
Unrecorded maker
19th century · Lacquer, roiro, mura nashiji, gold and coloured hiramakie, takamakie; Interior: nashiji and fundame
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Courtier on Horseback (obverse); Landscape with Trees (reverse)
Unrecorded maker
19th–20th century · Lacquer, fundame, nashiji, gold and colored hiramakie, takamakie; Interior: nashiji and fundame
Cleared · Public Domain
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