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Sample tiles for vase

1890s

Tiles, paper, and wood, framed

71 5/8 in. (181.9 cm)
Gift of Mrs. Nathan Baldwin
1899.4b
Geography: 
Japan
Status: 
Not on view
Culture: 
Japanese
Period: 
Meiji era (1868–1912)
Classification: 
Works on Paper - Drawings and Watercolors
Provenance: 

Commisioned by Goto Seizaburo (Shozaburo), Yokohama, Japan, 1898 [see note 1] for Mr. Nathan Adolphus Baldwin (1824–1898), Milford, Conn.; Mrs. Nathan Baldwin (possibly Maria Lucy Fitch Whitney Baldwin) (1823–1905), New York; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 9 February 1899

Note 1: According to a newspaper clipping on file dated March 14, 1899 Yokohama W. C. Stone

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.