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Writing Box with Paper Tray ‘Pines on a Cliff in the Sea’
Also titled Schrijfdoos met papierplankje ‘Pijnbomen op een rots in zee’
Uono Jisei (born 1883)
c. 1941
- Medium
- wood (plant material), lacquer (coating), gold (metal), silver (metal), tin (metal)
- Classification
- schrijfcassette
- Dimensions
- height 7.7 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from Jan Dees & René van der Star
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
The lid of this small writing box features three kinds of surfaces: the rocky outcrops, the sea, and the clouds. The outcrops are made of inlaid lead. The sea was created by working viscous lacquer with a stiff brush and the clouds were applied in two colours of lacquer. In this way, Jisei has attained a particularly expressive representation.
