Rights clearance desk for images
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Where this page got its records
1084 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
358 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 461 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Case (Inrō) with Design of Quail Standing beside Millet Stalks
Unrecorded maker
mid-18th century · Lacquer, roiro and rubbed nashiji, gold, black and red hiramakie, raden; Interior: roiro and fundame, each case gold metal label
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Landscape
Unrecorded maker
18th century · Lacquer with sprinkled gold makie and cut gold foil
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Standing Deer
Ogata Kōrin (d. 1716)
18th century · Gold lacquer with mother-of-pearl and pewter inlay Ojime: carnelian bead Netsuke: carved wood deer
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Deer and Lanterns at Kasuga Shrine
Yamada School
ca. 1800 · Gold and silver maki-e and pewter on dark green lacquer Ojime: Coral bead Netsuke: Carved wood in shape of mouse on mushroom
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 Deer in a Hilly Landscape
Unrecorded maker
19th century · Lacquer, kinji, gold and silver hiramakie, nashiji and kirigane; Interior: nashiji and fundame
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Dragonflies
Mochizuki Hanzan (d. 1790)
18th–19th century · Wood, brushed wood ground, gold, red and green hiramakie, takamakie, raden; Interior: nashiji and fundame
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Eulalia Grass and Deer
Unrecorded maker
19th century · Case: powdered gold (maki-e), gold, silver, and gold foil on black lacquer with shell inlay; Fastener (ojime): white agate; Toggle (netsuke): ivory carved in the shape of an eagle catching a fox
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Horses
Unrecorded maker
18th–19th century · Lacquer, roiro, gold togidashi, nashiji, raden inlay; Interior: nashiji and fundame
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Stag and Deer beside Pines Needles and Maple Leaves
Unrecorded maker
19th century · Lacquer, roiro, gold hiramakie, gold metal deer; Interior: gyobu nashiji and fundame, decoration
Cleared · Public Domain
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Case (Inrō) with Design of Weaving Implements
Unrecorded maker
19th century · Hiramaki-e on ro-iro black lacquer
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 Butterflies
Unrecorded maker
19th century · Lacquer, silver and gold foil, roiro, nashiji, gold and coloured togidashi; Interior: red lacquer and fundame, decoration
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