Keywords: Japanese - Box for Incense Ash - Walters 6740.jpg This takigara-ire is four-lobed and decorated in black and gold lacquer The lid and exterior sides of the box are decorated with similar designs of autumnal flowers small rocks and four mitsuaoi crests There is a black ro-iro background for a design in hira-makie in gold; the interior of the lid and the exterior bottom of the box are decorated with nashiji; the interior of the box is covered with gilded metal The rims are kinji century 19 Edo-Meiji black and gold lacquer gilded metal cm 4 7 4 7 6 6 accession number 67 40 10213 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquistion unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters place of origin Japan Walters Art Museum license Art of Japan in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Maki-e Kōgō |