id: 139450
accession number: 1963.260
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Writing Box with Spitting Courtesan, early to mid-1800s. Japan, Edo period (1615-1868). Lacquered wood with maki-e (image made of sprinkled gold dust); box: 21.6 x 19.8 x 3.2 cm (8 1/2 x 7 13/16 x 1 1/4 in.); closed: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.); cover: 20.7 x 20.7 cm (8 1/8 x 8 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Worcester R. Warner Collection 1963.260
title: Writing Box with Spitting Courtesan
title in original language: 唾を吐く遊女蒔絵硯箱
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creation date: early to mid-1800s
creation date earliest: 1800
creation date latest: 1868
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creditline: Worcester R. Warner Collection
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culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique: Lacquered wood with maki-e (image made of sprinkled gold dust)
department: Japanese Art
collection: Japanese Art
type: Lacquer
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measurements: Box: 21.6 x 19.8 x 3.2 cm (8 1/2 x 7 13/16 x 1 1/4 in.); Closed: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.); Cover: 20.7 x 20.7 cm (8 1/8 x 8 1/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review (1963)
opening date: 1963-11-27T05:00:00
Year in Review (1963). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 27, 1963-January 5, 1964).
title: The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art
opening date: 2011-03-27T00:00:00
The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011).
title: Japan's Floating World (Japanese art rotation) 235
opening date: 2022-04-08T04:00:00
Japan's Floating World (Japanese art rotation) 235. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 8-October 9, 2022).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Tomkinson
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(N. V. Hammer, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: ?-1963
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1963-present
date: 1963-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review for 1963.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 10 (1963): 263–294.
page number: Mentioned: no. 64, p. 292; Reproduced: no. 64, p. 284
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25151974
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 285
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n309
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 285
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n309
Pekarik, Andrew. Japanese Lacquer, 1600-1900: Selections from the Charles A. Greenfield Collection. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980.
page number: Comparative material from the Charles A. Greenfield Collection reproduced: cover, color plate no. 22, p. 78
url: ps://books.google.com/books?id=Frw1vEmyHSMC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Sŏn, Sŭng-hye. The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011.
page number: cat. no. 3
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Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 54–55
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Franklin, David. The Cleveland Museum of Art. London: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd., 2012.
page number: Reproduced: p. 54 - 55
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IMAGES
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