{"data": {"id": 285876, "accession_number": "2016.34", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Phoenix in Paulownia (\u6850\u306b\u9cf3\u51f0\u91d1\u9280\u8494\u7d75\u786f\u7bb1), late 1500s. Japan, Momoyama period (1573\u20131615). Lacquer on wood with sprinkled gold and silver powder (maki-e) and gold and silver foil application; 4 x 20.5 x 23.5 cm (1 9/16 x 8 1/16 x 9 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 2016.34", "current_location": null, "title": "Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Phoenix in Paulownia", "title_in_original_language": "\u6850\u306b\u9cf3\u51f0\u91d1\u9280\u8494\u7d75\u786f\u7bb1", "creation_date": "late 1500s", "creation_date_earliest": 1573, "creation_date_latest": 1599, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Japan, Momoyama period (1573\u20131615)"], "technique": "Lacquer on wood with sprinkled gold and silver powder (maki-e) and gold and silver foil application", "support_materials": [], "department": "Japanese Art", "collection": "Japanese Art", "type": "Lacquer", "measurements": "4 x 20.5 x 23.5 cm (1 9/16 x 8 1/16 x 9 1/4 in.)", "dimensions": {"No Extent Specified": {"height": 0.04, "height_inch": 1, "height_inch_fraction": 0.5625, "width": 0.205, "width_inch": 8, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0625, "depth": 0.235, "depth_inch": 9, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.25}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 291838, "title": "Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - January-July 2017", "description": "<i>Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - January-July 2017</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (January 9-July 10, 2017).", "opening_date": "2017-01-09T05:00:00"}, {"id": 455863, "title": "Animals in Japanese Art", "description": "<i>Animals in Japanese Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 24-December 10, 2023).", "opening_date": "2023-06-24T04:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "(Koichi Yanagi Oriental Fine Arts, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "?\u20132016", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "2016\u2013", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "In contrast to the bright, celebratory motifs on the exterior, the interior of the box invites a more reflective mood with its autumn moonlit sky over chrysanthemums.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "The only place the mythical phoenix will perch is in the paulownia tree. Along with the dragon, the bird is a symbol of imperial power in East Asia. This box\u2013\u2013a container for an inkstone, brushes, and ink\u2013\u2013is both functional and lavish, its dramatic effects achieved with a pear-skin ground decoration (<em>nashiji</em>) and sprinkled powder decoration in high relief (<em>takamaki-e</em>).", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79870513"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-2016.34-writing-box-suzuriba"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "\"New in the Galleries.\u201d <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 57, no. 1 (January/February 2017): Back cover.", "page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: Back cover", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2017-01/page/n13/mode/2up"}, {"citation": "Vilbar, Sin\u00e9ad. \u201cAcquisition Highlights 2016: Japanese Art.\u201d <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> vol. 57, no. 2 (March/April 2017): 18\u201319.", "page_number": "Reproduced: pp. 5, 19; Mentioned: p. 19", "url": ""}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2016.34", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2016.34/2016.34_web.jpg", "width": "900", "height": "640", "filesize": "194582", "filename": "2016.34_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2016.34/2016.34_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "2418", "filesize": "2437083", "filename": "2016.34_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2016.34/2016.34_full.tif", "width": "7783", "height": "5536", "filesize": "129289196", "filename": "2016.34_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [{"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2016.34/2016.34_alt0_web.jpg", "width": "900", "height": "550", "filesize": "236518"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2016.34/2016.34_alt0_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "2076", "filesize": "3244140"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2016.34/2016.34_alt0_full.tif", "width": "11226", "height": "6856", "filesize": "230926088"}, "date_created": "2016-11-02T10:31:46", "annotation": ""}, {"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2016.34/2016.34_alt1_web.jpg", "width": "900", "height": "543", "filesize": "235862"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2016.34/2016.34_alt1_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "2050", "filesize": "3307724"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2016.34/2016.34_alt1_full.tif", "width": "11120", "height": "6705", "filesize": "223708784"}, "date_created": "2016-11-02T11:05:20", "annotation": ""}, {"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2016.34/2016.34_alt2_web.jpg", "width": "799", "height": "900", "filesize": "315556"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2016.34/2016.34_alt2_print.jpg", "width": "3020", "height": "3400", "filesize": "4093344"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2016.34/2016.34_alt2_full.tif", "width": "5856", "height": "6593", "filesize": "115856572"}, "date_created": "2016-11-02T11:05:20", "annotation": ""}], "creditline": "Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 285876, "creators": [], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "2016-06-09T00:00:00-04:00", "sortable_date": 1573, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "late 1500s", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "cover", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": null, "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": [], "is_highlight": true, "updated_at": "2026-05-29 08:51:46.406000"}}