Octagonal box with lid, decorated with mother-of-pearl flowers

Japanese Collection

Accession Nr.: 3377.1-2
Type: object for daily use; lacquers
Date of production:
second half of the 19th century
Edo (Tokugawa) period or Meiji era
Place of production:
Acquisition: collected by János Xántus
Signed: Hokkyō Kōrin (法橋光琳), kaō (red circle): Korasuke (?亮, copyist) (both are artist names)
Materials/Techniques: wood, lacquer, mother of pearl inlay
Dimensions: height 7.4 cm
width 5.8 cm
depth 5.8 cm
Small octagon box for tea powder (nakatsugi-kei,chaki) with heartvine and butterfly motifs, imitation of metal surface, and mother-of-pearl inlay in Rinpa style