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Loan Object
Pair of Sake Flasks
late 16th century
Pair of flasks: Kodaiji maki-e lacquer on wood with gold
8 in. (20.3 cm)
Collection of Peggy and Richard M. Danziger, LL.B. 1963
ILE2017.16.10a-b
Geography:
Japan
Culture:
Japanese
Period:
Momoyama period (1573–1615)
Classification:
Containers - Lacquer
Provenance:
Purchased from Klaus Naumann, Tokyo, 1983.
Bibliography:
Sadako Ohki and Takeshi Watanabe, Tea Culture of Japan (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2009), 103, no. 88, ill.
Carolyn Wheelwright, ed., Word in Flower: The Visualization of Classical Literature in Seventeenth-Century Japan, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1989), 4, 111, no. 14, fig. 1.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.