id:			139451
accession number:	1963.260.a
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.260.a
updated:		2025-02-15 12:46:37.912000

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.a

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:		1795
creation date latest:		1805
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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:		The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art
	opening date:   2011-03-27T00:00:00
	<i>The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011).

	title:		Japan’s Floating World 日本の浮世
	opening date:   2022-04-08T04:00:00
	<i>Japan’s Floating World 日本の浮世</i>. 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.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 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. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. 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. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 285
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n309

	Sŏn, Sŭng-hye. <em>The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Ar</em>t. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011.
	page number: 	cat. no. 3
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	Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann.<em> Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 54–55
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	Franklin, David. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> London: Scala Arts &amp; Heritage Publishers Ltd., 2012.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 54 - 55
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