Inrô, Shibata Zeshin
Lacquer ware
Japan
Subject/design:
A fox disguised as a monk nearing a mousetrap in a field of autumn grasses.
On the back, two sheafs of rice under the new moon.
Materials:
Polychrome hiramaki-e lacquer, ishime
Date:
Late 19th century
Size:
7.8 x 5.8 x 3 cm
Place of origin:
Japan
Artist:
Signed "Zeshin 是真" (Shibata Zeshin 柴田是真 (1807-1891)
Inventory number:
CB.LJ.1936.49
Copyright:
Fondation Baur
Photographer:
Marian Gérard