Box lid
Category
Furniture
Date
c. 1953
Materials
Balsa, Textile
Measurements
615 mm (H)2147 mm (H)165 mm (W)450 mm (W)133 mm (D)370 mm (D)
Place of origin
Japan
Order this imageCollection
Cragside, Northumberland
NT 1232023.2.1
Summary
Lid of a Paulownia wood storage box, Japanese, probably mid-twentieth century, inscribed in black ink on the lid 料紙文庫 ryōshi bunko (‘document box’), to store NT 1232023.1.
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.