The Metropolitan Museum of Art

胡蝶蒔絵料紙箱|Document Box with a Scene from the “Butterflies” Chapter of The Tale of Genji

Unrecorded artist

20th century

Attribution

Unrecorded artist

Medium

Lacquered wood with gold and silver takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, togidashimaki-e, cut-out gold foil on nashiji and gold ground

Physical dimensions

H. 6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm); W. 13 3/4 in. (34.9 cm); L. 17 1/2 in. (44.5 cm)

Credit line

Anonymous Gift, from the Collection of the late Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin DeWitt Riegel, 1981