Writing Table (Bundai) with a Brook and Flowers

19th century (Edo period)

56.2 cm 8.9 cm 32.1 cm

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A scholar or calligrapher would arrange their writing tools on this writing table (bundai). The table surface is decorated with a golden mountain landscape scene with a brook and flowers. The bunches of flowers that dominate the foreground and flank the stream are chrysanthemu...

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Minoda Chojiro, Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876 (?); William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1876, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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