Inkstone, brush, and ink stick with tiger design Artist: Unknown

1818 (year of the tiger)

Asian Art

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Surimono, vertical ko-ban; polychrome woodblock print with gold and gaufrage

Dimensions

sheet: 7 15/16 × 4 3/4 in. (20.2 × 12.1 cm)

Credit Line

Promised gift of Virginia Shawan Drosten and Patrick Kenadjian, B.A. 1970

Loan number

ILE2017.30.126

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Classification

Prints

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Provenance
Joan B. Mirviss (dealer), New York; sold to Virginia Shawan Drosten and Patrick Kenadjian, Koenigstein im Taunus, Germany, 1979 (on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2017–present)
Bibliography
  • Joan B. Mirviss and John T. Carpenter, Jewels of Japanese Printmaking: Surimono of the Bunka-Bunsei Era 1804–1830 (Tokyo: Ota Memorial Museum of Art, 2000), 166–67, no. 119
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts, surimono

Signed

Unsigned

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