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Incense Burner (lid)

late 1300s

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Japan, Nanbokuchō period

(1336-92)

Bronze with metal rim

Overall: 7.7 x 10.8 cm (3 1/16 x 4 1/4 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1960.195.b

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not on view

Description

This container's repeated, undulating, rounded sides evoke waves over which the articulated plovers sweep. The bronze cover (probably a later addition) mimics the design of a fishing weir. Overall, the container brings to mind the seashore. The earthy quality of the lacquered surface demonstrates the interaction between a man-made pattern (the plovers) and the somewhat unexpected surface of a natural material such as wood.

Provenance

Inosuke Setsu [1897-1969], Tokyo, Japan

?-1960

(Mayuyama and Company, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1960-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review| 1960.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 47, no. 10, 1960, pp. 223–254. Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 29, p. 251 www.jstor.org

Lee, Sherman E. Japanese Decorative Style. Tokyo: Makoto Nakao, 1962. cat. no. 37

Mayuyama, Junkichi 繭山順吉. Japanese Art in the West. [Tokyo]: Mayuyama & Co, 1966. Mentioned: p. 357; Reproduced: p. 268, pl. 312

Yamane, Yūzō 山根有三, Shūjirō Shimada 島田修二郎, and Terukazu Akiyama 秋山光和. Zaigai Nihon no shihō [在外日本の至宝 = Japanese Art: Selections from Western Collections, vol. 10]. Tōkyō: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1979. cat. nos. 3-4, p. 109

Lee, Sherman E., Michael R. Cunningham, and Ursula Korneitchouk. One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650): From the Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue. New York: Japan Society, 1981. Reproduced: cat. no. 18

Cunningham, Michael R. The Triumph of Japanese Style: 16th-Century Art in Japan. Cleveland, OH: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with the Indiana University Press, 1991. Reproduced: p. 112

Exhibition history

Birds, Beasts, Blossoms, and Bugs - The Nature of Japan. Frederick S. Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (March 30-May 23, 1976).

One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650) from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Japan House Gallery, New York, NY (March 19-May 17, 1981).

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 120). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 11, 2003-July 13, 2004).

The Triumph of Japanese Style: 16th Century Art in Japan. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19-December 1, 1991).

Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009).

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