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Tea Caddy (Chaire) (lid)

1500s

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Japan, Muromachi period

(1392-1573)

Negoro lacquer on wood

Diameter: 11 cm (4 5/16 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1988.56.b

Location

not on view

Description

Negoro is a lacquer technique, named after the Negoro temple in Japan, in which several layers of red lacquer are applied over a black lacquer undercoating. Through years of handling, a natural surface of red and black random patterns emerges, an aesthetic highly prized by the Japanese.

Provenance
?-1988
(London Gallery, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1988-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
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. 122
Exhibition history

Cleveland Museum of Art, 1989: Year in Review 1988.

Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991: Triumph of Japanese Style.

Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 120); March 4, 2003 - July 22, 2003.

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

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