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Reading Stand with Chrysanthemums and Autumn Grasses

菊秋草蒔絵書見台

early 1600s
(1573–1615)
Wood with lacquer and sprinkled gold powder (maki-e), metal fittings
Overall: 53.3 x 30.5 x 45.7 cm (21 x 12 x 18 in.)
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1976.15
Location: not on view
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Dew on chrysanthemum is seasonal imagery symbolizing the approach of winter.

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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.

Reading Stand with Chrysanthemums and Autumn Grasses

early 1600s

Japan, Momoyama period (1573–1615)

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