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Asian Art

Paper Lantern with Wooden Box

ca. 1850

Paper and wood

Lantern: 3 1/2 × 9 1/2 in. (8.89 × 24.13 cm)
box: 12 × 5 × 11 1/4 in. (30.48 × 12.7 × 28.58 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Olsen, Mr. and Mrs. Laurens Hammond, and Mr. and Mrs. Knight Woolley, B.A. 1917
1967.64.160
Geography: 
Japan
Status: 
By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Culture: 
Japanese
Period: 
19th century
Classification: 
Works on Paper - Other
Provenance: 

Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), and Florence Quittenton Olsen, Guilford, Conn.; gift in 1967 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

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