Collection Online as of January 29, 2023

Letter Box (lid)

1615–1868

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Japan, Edo period

(1615-1868)

Lacquer

Overall: 23 cm (9 1/16 in.)

The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection 1944.219.b

Location

not on view

Provenance

?–1944

Mrs. Francis F. [Elisabeth Severance Allen] Prentiss [1865–1944], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1944–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Prentiss, Elisabeth Severance, and Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection; Bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. Mentioned: p. 86 archive.org

Cleveland Museum of Art, and Sŏn Sŭng-hye. The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011. Mentioned: P. 71; reproduced: P. 73, no. 68

Exhibition history

In the Nature of Materials - Japanese Decorative Arts. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 18–February 20, 1977).

Arts of Japan from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, OH (organizer) (March 25-April 22, 1979).