Inrö with an Arabesque (Karakusa) Motif | Yale University Art Gallery

18th–19th century

Medium: Inro: cherry lacquer ground on wood with inlay of gold and silver wire, interior with decoration in nashiji and fundame; netsuke: agate; ojime: stone
Dimensions: 3 1/2 × 2 in. (8.9 × 5.1 cm)
Credit Line: Bequest of Florence Baiz van Volkenburgh in memory of her husband Thomas Sedgwick van Volkenburgh, B.A. 1866
Accession Number: 1940.249
Geography: Japan
Culture: Japanese
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Florence Baiz van Volkenburgh (died 1940), New York, NY; bequest in 1940 to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

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