Writing box
date: label: Date
content: 1615-1868
label: Period
content: Edo period
notes: label: Provenance
content: To 1898
label: Provenance
content: Ernest Abraham Hart (1835-1898), England, to 1898
label: Provenance
content: [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1903 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased at the sale of the Ernest Hart Collection, England, in 1903 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] Undated folder sheet note: "Purchased at final sale of Ernest Hart Collection in England." See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 1295, in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Provenance
content: [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Ernest Abraham Hart (1835-1898)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: lacquer
label: Topic
content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)
label: Topic
content: writing
label: Topic
content: Japan
label: Topic
content: Japanese Art
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
setName: label: Related Online Resources
content: Google Arts & Culture
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1903.282a-b
objectType: label: Type
content: Container
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Lacquer on wood with lacquer, metal, pottery and mother-of-pearl
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 4.5 x 23.7 x 21.6 cm (1 3/4 x 9 5/16 x 8 1/2 in)