Caption

Tray, Meiji period 1868–1912, Japan. Lacquer tray black roiro lacquer decorated with inlaid mother-of-pearl and bone; bottom finished in nashiji lacquer. Iconography includes samurai, dragons, fans, swords, and Kannon. 19th–20th century. Vessel; height 30.1 cm, width 39.4 cm., A rectangular black lacquer tray with a glossy finish and a thin gold rim shows a decorative scene of two inlaid figures near the center against the black background: a graceful figure wearing flowing garments in pale yellow, cream, gray, and muted green riding on or accompanied by a silvery white dragon, and a warrior figure dressed in layered armor with red, black, gold, cream, and muted purple tones holding a folded object and a feathered element; the tray corners are gently scalloped and the overall palette includes black, gold, silver, cream, red, muted green, gray, and purple.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26A29_070

License type

Rights managed

Available size

79.1Mb (1.1Mb) / 20.0in x 15.4in / 6000 x 4609 (300dpi)

Keywords

Tray Meiji period 1868–1912 Japan Lacquer tray black roiro lacquer decorated inlaid mother-of-pearl bone bottom finished nashiji lacquer Iconography includes samurai dragons fans swords Kannon 19th–20th century Vessel height 30.1 cm width 39.4 cm rectangular black lacquer tray glossy finish thin gold rim decorative scene two inlaid figures near center black background graceful figure wearing flowing garments pale yellow cream gray muted green riding accompanied silvery white dragon warrior figure dressed layered armor red black gold muted purple tones holding folded object feathered element tray corners gently scalloped palette silver muted green purple.