The Metropolitan Museum of Art

原羊遊斎作・酒井抱一下絵 梅木蒔絵印籠|Inrō with Design of Blossoming Plum Tree

Hara Yōyūsai|Sakai Hōitsu

19th century

Attribution

|After a design by Hara Yōyūsai|Sakai Hōitsu | Japanese, 1772–1845|Japanese, 1761–1828

Medium

Sprinkled gold lacquer with gold, silver, and red makie, takamakie, and coral inlay Ojime: bead; tortoiseshell Netsuke: box with decoration of violets; gold makie lacquer with gold and silver makie

Physical dimensions

Overall (inro): H. 3 11/16 in. (9.3 cm); W. 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm); D. 7/8 in. (2.2 cm)

Credit line

The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936