Square tray with colored design of birds and trees

Object Details

• Provenance

  To 1986

  Elizabeth Gordon Norcross, Adamstown, Maryland. [1]

  From 1986

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Elizabeth Gordon Norcross, Adamstown, Maryland. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] See Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Study Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Mrs. Elizabeth Gordon Norcross

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Mrs. Elizabeth Gordon Norcross

• Type

  Container

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1900s, 1950s

• Name

  Norcross, Elizabeth Gordon

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Art, Showa era (1926 - 1989), Japanese Art, Lacquer, Taisho era (1912 - 1926), Meiji era (1868 - 1912)

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Containers