Box lid
Uematsu Hōmin (1845 - 1899)
Category
Objets de vertu
Date
c. 1870 - 1899
Materials
Lacquer, Wood
Measurements
150 mm (H)325 mm (W)405 mm (D)
Place of origin
Tokyo
Order this imageCollection
Cragside, Northumberland
NT 1232023.1.1
Summary
Lid of a lacquer document box (ryōshi bunko), by Uematsu Hōmin (1845–99), Tokyo, Japan, last quarter nineteenth century. Decorated on the exterior with various naturalistically depicted flowering plants and grasses against a gold ground, on the interior of the lid with similar decoration on a ‘pear skin’ (nashiji) ground, the interior of the body of the box in black lacquer.
Provenance
Given to the Armstrong family by HIH Crown Prince Akihito of Japan (b.1933, later the Heisei Emperor), 16 May 1953; accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax, along with much of the rest of the collection at Cragside, the house and part of the estate, and allocated to the National Trust, 1977.
Makers and roles
Uematsu Hōmin (1845 - 1899), lacquer artist