Octagonal Food Box

Provenance

(Yanagi Fine Art Shop, Kyoto, Japan, sold to Robert H. Ellsworth, Ltd. as gift for the Cleveland Museum of Art) (?–1991); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1991–)

Octagonal Food Box

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late 1700s

Accession Number

1991.60

Medium

wood with black lacquer and mother-of-pearl (Ryukyuan)

Dimensions

Overall: 39.4 cm (15 1/2 in.)

Classification

Lacquer

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Robert H. Ellsworth, Ltd.