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Sake Ewer (Hisage) with Chrysanthemums and Paulownia Crests in Alternating Fields
early 17th century
- Medium
- Lacquered wood with gold hiramaki-e and e-nashiji (“pear-skin picture”) on black ground
- Classification
- Lacquer
- Dimensions
- H. (incl. handle) 10 in. (25.4 cm); Diam. 7 in. (17.8 cm); W. (including spout) 10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm)
- Culture
- Japan
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Asian Art
- Credit line
- Purchase, Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, by exchange, 1980
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
