Vase

Japan

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 199


The neck and foot of this vase are decorated in overlay gilding, a variation of a technique known as nunomezōgan (textile-imprint inlay). In this process, the ground metal is incised with a fine diagonal lattice of vertical and horizontal lines to produce a clothlike grain. Thin gold or silver foil is then inlaid by hammering it into the incised lines, not unlike the damascened decoration of the Tiffany iron candlesticks in the previous gallery.

Vase, Iron, Japan

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Vase, Iron, Japan
Vase, Iron, Japan
Vase, Iron, Japan

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