Container in the form of a crane, anonymous, c. 1700 - c. 1800

Identification

Title(s)

Container in the form of a crane
Container in the Shape of a Crane

Object type

box

Object number

AK-MAK-682

Description

Lakdoos in de vorm van een kraanvogel, ingelegd met parelmoer. Waarschijnlijk een doos voor het serveren van voedsel.

Creation

Artist

maker: anonymous

Place

Japan

Dating

c. 1700 - c. 1800

School / style

Edo-period (1600-1868)

Material and Technique

Physical features

lacquer on wood, mother-of-pearl

Material

Measurements

height 39.5 cm × width 59.5 cm × depth 18.7 cm

Subject

What

shore-birds and wading-birds: crane

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (Westendorp-Osieck bequest, 1968)

Acquisition

loan 1972

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; from the dealer E.J. Van Wisselingh, Amsterdam, fl. 75 and one or more unknown objects in exchange, to Herman Karel Westendorp (1868-1941), February 1914;{Note RMA.} his widow Betsy Westendorp-Osieck (1880-1968), Amsterdam, by whom bequeathed to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, 1968;{note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1972

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Aziatische kunst, cat.nr. 85
Asian art, cat.nr. 85
Von Siebold and Japan, p. 66 (afb.), cat.nr. 37
Asiatic art in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, p. 121, cat.nr. 127
Japanese lacquer, 1600-1900 : selections from the Charles A. Greenfield collection, Andrew J. Pekarik
Menno Fitski, 'Japanese art in the Westendorp-Osieck collection', Arts of Asia 38 (2008), nr. 4, p. 49, afb. 3.

Persistent URL

To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.1578

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