Basketwork Box with Ivy

Japan

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 199


The lid of this document box features fine strips of bamboo covered in lacquer and then decorated with a stylized autumn ivy vine design. A similar ivy motif appears on a silver Tiffany teapot (combined with a dragonfly) made about 1878; an early inventory suggests that Moore may have acquired this box that year at the Paris Exposition. A box like this is also mentioned in discussions of the colors Tiffany aspired to create in the Conglomerate Vase on view nearby.

Basketwork Box with Ivy, Bamboo, and lacquer, with gold and silver hiramaki-e with red lacquer accents, Japan

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Basketwork Box with Ivy, Bamboo, and lacquer, with gold and silver hiramaki-e with red lacquer accents, Japan
Basketwork Box with Ivy, Bamboo, and lacquer, with gold and silver hiramaki-e with red lacquer accents, Japan
Basketwork Box with Ivy, Bamboo, and lacquer, with gold and silver hiramaki-e with red lacquer accents, Japan

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