Title: Two-Tiered Box with Design of Autumn Fruits
Object type: Box
Date: second half of the 19th century
Culture: Japan
Period: Meiji period (1868–1912)
Artist:  Ikeda Taishin 
Artist bio: Japanese, 1825–1903
Artist nationality: Japanese
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Lacquered wood with gold, silver, black, and red takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, and e-nashiji on black lacquer ground
Dimensions: H. 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm); W. 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm); L. 6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm)
Classification: Lacquer
Credit line: The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936
Department: Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Fruit, term: Leaves