Inscribed box with lid for pair of cloisonne bottles

Object Details

• Inscription

  Hayashi Kodenji (1831-1915)

• Description

  The original cedar box is constructed with compartments to hold the two bottles in cotton drawstring bags and two Chinese-style wooden stands for their display. The box lid is inscribed with ink in Japanese: "Number 324...Four sun [Japanese unit of measure equivalent to 3.03 cm.] square vase with rounded edges, design of large-blossomed chrysanthemums on lapis lazuli ground...Made by Hayashi Kodenji of Japan." Written in pencil in English on the lid is the note: "Presented by the Theology Department of the Doshisha." The note was probably written by a daughter of the original owner, Thomas Theron Alexander, grandfather of the donor.

• Inscriptions

  1. (Louise A. Cort, 14 March 1996) Box lid is inscribed with ink in Japanese: "Number 324...Four sun [Japanese unit of measure equivalent to 3.03 cm] square vase with rounded edges, design of large-blossomed chrysanthemums on lapis lazuli ground...Made by Hayashi Kodenji of Japan." Written in pencil in English on the lid is the note: "Presented by the Theology Department of the Doshisha." The note was probably written by a daughter of the original owner, Thomas Theron Alexander, grandfather of the donor.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Origin

  Nagoya, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Emma Shelton in memory of T.T. Alexander, D.D.

• Type

  Container

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• Date

  1900s, 1890s

• Name

  Hayashi, Kodenji

• Place

  Nagoya, Japan

• Topic

  Art, Japanese Art, Meiji era (1868 - 1912)

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Containers