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Writing Box (Suzuribako)

Writing Box (Suzuribako)

Artist/Maker
Date17th–18th century
MediumGold lacquer
DimensionsOverall: 3 3/8 × 10 1/4 × 11 3/8 in. (8.6 × 26 × 28.9 cm)
Overall (water dropper): 5 × 2 1/8 × 1 3/8 in. (12.7 × 5.4 × 3.5 cm)
Overall (wooden storage box): 3 1/2 × 10 × 11 3/8 in. (8.9 × 25.4 × 28.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Francis F. Campbell (OC 1930)
Object number1971.88.1A-D
Status
Not on view
ProvenanceAcquired 1918 by Henry James Bennett¹; by gift 1930 to his daughter Mrs. Francis F. Campbell²; by gift 1971 to Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH Notes: [1] Bennett was a Congressional missionary in Japan for 40 years. [2] on the occasion of Mrs. Campbell's graduation from Oberlin CollegeExhibition History
None of These Things Is Just Like the Other: Twelve Students Raid the Collection
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (May 13, 1994 - July 17, 1994 )
When Words Meet Pictures: East Asian Painting and Sculpture
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 25, 1994 - November 15, 1994 )
Chinese and Japanese Art from Antiquity to the Present
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 17, 2002 - June 9, 2003 )
The Enchantment of the Everyday: East Asian Decorative Arts from the Permanent Collection
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (July 9, 2019 - September 3, 2021 )
Collections
  • Asian
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