The square lid finely deigned with three lacquer inro and Chinese ink cake in gold, silver and iro-e takamaki-e, inlaid mother-of-pearl, pewter, various stones including malachite and cinnabar lacquer on a dark brown ground, the interior of the lid designed with ancient bronze seals inlaid in lacquer and stone on a dense nashiji ground, fitted with a brush, an ink cake holder, a piercer and a knife in gold and nashiji stripes bands, an inkstone and shakudo and gilt fan-shaped water dropper
9 x 8¹⁄₂ x 2 in. (22.8 x 21.5 x 5 cm.)
With original wood box sealed Takayama on reverse side

"Art of the Meiji," The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 11.1988-6.1989

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Dr. Robert Jacobsen has had a long and distinguished career in the field of Asian art, as a scholar, teacher, lecturer, and most notably as the Chair of Asian Art and Curator of Chinese, Indian, Himalayan, Southeast Asian and Islamic Art Department at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.