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Source Description
Iron inlaid with brocade patterns and plum blossoms in shibuichi. Nine gentlemen near a stream, with names and ages inscribed in plaques, in taka-bori of gold, shibuichi and copper. One is reading a book at a table. Decoration inlaid and applied(?) Signed on lid with two seals after the signature. Inside the lid the Thousand Character Essay is inscribed. A three-clawed dragon is inlaid in gold zogan on the bottom and inside the box with a poem about the dragon inscribed on the inner sides
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40798
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Nine Chinese Gentlemen in a Garden
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title
Nine Chinese Gentlemen in a Garden
description
Iron inlaid with brocade patterns and plum blossoms in shibuichi. Nine gentlemen near a stream, with names and ages inscribed in plaques, in taka-bori of gold, shibuichi and copper. One is reading a book at a table. Decoration inlaid and applied(?) Signed on lid with two seals after the signature. Inside the lid the Thousand Character Essay is inscribed. A three-clawed dragon is inlaid in gold zogan on the bottom and inside the box with a poem about the dragon inscribed on the inner sides
provenance
S.Colman?; Acquired by Henry Walters before 1931
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en
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covered containers
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Overall: 12 3/8 in. (31.4 cm)
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Japanese
inscriptions
[Transcription] Dai Nippon Itchosai Harutoshi saku; [Translation] Made by Itchosai Harutoshi of Great Japan; [Seal] two unread
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Iron with gold, silver, copper, shibuichi
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5167
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