Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Inro (container) in form of a turtle, with tail and feet drawn in and head partially extended. Divided into four horizontal compartments fitted into each other and lacquered black on inside. Strung on brown silk cord with turtle-shaped Ojime 1952-164-24 and Netsuke 1952-164-25.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Anonymous Donor
- ca. 1890
- Accession Number
- 1952-164-23-a/d
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- containers
- Decorative Arts
- Inro
- Medium
- Carved and lacquered wood, silk (cord)
- Dimensions
- 8.5 x 5.5 x 3.8 cm (3 3/8 x 2 3/16 x 1 1/2 in.)
- objects 1952-164-23/25: 38 x 5.5 x 3.8 cm (14 15/16 x 2 3/16 x 1 1/2 in.)
- Cord not Fully Extended
- made in
- Japan
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1952-164-23-a_d
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq42c05f243-a178-404a-a737-47cc9d93878f
