Object details
Accession number
U18e54
Primary Creator
Kajikawa
(Japanese, 1652 - 1724)
Full title
Medicine Case (Inro): House on a River
Creation Date
early 19th century
Provenance
Gift from the American music publisher and orientalist Rudolph E. Schirmer (1859-1919) to Isabella Stewart Gardner on 10 April 1909.
Marks
Signed: made by Kajikawa [possibly forged]
Seal: Kajikawa [possibly forged]
Dimensions
9 x 4 cm (3 9/16 x 1 9/16 in.)
Display Media
Lacquered wood with gold, silver, and red takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, and togidashimaki-e with cutout gold foil on black lacquer ground; red lacquer netsuke
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Permanent Gallery Location
Little Salon
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 146. (as Japanese, dated 18th-19th century)
“Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 8, no. 30 (28 Mar. 1965), p. 2.
Yasuko Horioka et al. Oriental and Islamic Art: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1975), pp. 89-90, 93, no. 40f. (as probably a 19th century forgery of Kajikawa Yoshiro)
Alan Chong and Noriko Murai. Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2009), pp. 411, 414 fig. 12.
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