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Reading Stand with Chrysanthemums and Autumn Grasses
The collection record classifies this work as lacquer. It is dated early 1600s. Recorded culture or place: Japan, Momoyama period (1573–1615).
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- Museum title
- Reading Stand with Chrysanthemums and Autumn Grasses
- Date
- early 1600s
- Culture / origin
- Japan, Momoyama period (1573–1615)
- Materials and technique
- Wood with lacquer, sprinkled gold powder (maki-e), and metal fittings
- Dimensions
- Overall: 53.3 x 30.5 x 45.7 cm (21 x 12 x 18 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1976.15
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Japanese reading stands often incorporate motifs associated with seasonal poetry. The combination of long, narrow, miscanthus grass, bush clover with its small, ovoid leaves, and chrysanthemum with its many-petaled blossoms is classic autumnal imagery. One lacquer technique featured prominently on the stand is sprinkled gold in low relief (hiramaki-e). Pear-skin ground design (nashiji-e) is used for the slopes of the ground and in some of the leaves.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund · CC0
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