Incense box and tray

Object Details

• Description

  Cryptomeria wood incense box and tray with a monkey design in lacquer decoration.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Birds and Beasts in Japanese Art (January 31 to July 18, 2004)

  Surveying the Collections: Poets and Parties (July 2, 2000 to February 4, 2001)

  Japanese and Chinese Lacquer (September 22, 1982 to June 30, 1983)

  Year of the Monkey (May 18, 1980 to February 15, 1981)

  Japanese Lacquer (April 16, 1979 to October 8, 1980)

  Japanese Art, Galleries 3, 4, and 5 (January 1, 1963 to September 16, 1970)

  Ukiyo-e Exhibition (August 7, 1961 to January 1, 1963)

  Hokusai Bicentennial Exhibition (March 30, 1960 to August 16, 1961)

  Centennial Exhibition, Galleries 3 and 4 (February 25, 1956 to January 1, 1963)

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Container

• Restrictions and Rights

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  1700s, 1710s, 1720s, 1900s, 1770s, 1780s, 1790s, 1730s, 1740s, 1750s, 1760s, 1800s, 1810s, 1820s, 1830s, 1610s, 1650s, 1640s, 1630s, 1620s, 1690s, 1840s, 1680s, 1850s, 1670s, 1860s, 1660s

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Lokapala, Art, Animals, Chrysanthemum, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Incense, Vajra, Nighthawk, Japanese Art, Lacquer, Monkeys, Meiji era (1868 - 1912)

• Culture

  Buddhists, Japanese

• Object Type

  Containers