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Document Box with a Scene from the “Butterflies” Chapter of The Tale of Genji
Unknown maker
- Medium
- Lacquered wood with gold and silver takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, togidashimaki-e, cut-out gold foil on nashiji and gold ground
- Dimensions
- H. 6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm); W. 13 3/4 in. (34.9 cm); L. 17 1/2 in. (44.5 cm)
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Asian Art
- Classification
- Lacquer
- Dated
- 20th century
- Pixels
- 571 × 700
- SHA-256
- 4ae599fb781f6719…
- Record
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License, verbatimCC0
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Open Access, Creative Commons Zero (CC0). Flagged isPublicDomain=true in the museum's own record.
Document Box with a Scene from the “Butterflies” Chapter of The Tale of Genji. 20th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.