Object Details
- Description
- Small glass bottle of pigment used for printing Japanese woodblocks. Paper label in English with color name as transliterated from Japanese: Indigo blue: Ai-gami; separate label with catalogue number. No cork; glass broken at top. Bottle contains paper saturated with color which suggests this may be dayflower, Tsu-yu-kusa, rather than indigo which did not come in paper form.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of T. Tokuno, Chief of the Japanese Bureau of Engraving and Printing (Insatsukyoku), 1889-90
- ID Number
- GA.03444
- catalog number
- 03444
- accession number
- 23218
- Object Name
- pigment
- Object Type
- pigment
- Measurements
- overall: 6 cm x 3 cm; 2 3/8 in x 1 3/16 in
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Communications
- Tokuno Gift
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1323754
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-d66c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
