Lacquered Inkstone Box (Suzuri-Bako)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "IN GOLD LACQUER (MOCKIE DESIGN IN RELIEF). MAY 1969 THOUGH THIS ITEM APPEARS IN THE ORIGINAL CATALOG AMONG THOSE ITEMS FROM SIAM, WHICH WERE INCORRECTLY ENTERED AS PERRY ITEMS, THERE IS NOTHING TO TIE IT IN WITH THE REST OF THE SIAM ITEMS SO IT PROBABLY IS JAPAN AND BELONGS WITH THE PERRY MATERIAL. THOUGH IT HAS NOT BEEN FOUND TO EXAMINE. GOLD LACQUERED WRITING SET FOUND IN COLLECTION, INCORRECTLY NUMBERED 71, BUT WITH FAINT TRACES OF OLD CATALOG NUMBER 72 OR INSIDE RIM OF COVER. LISTED IN ORIGINAL CATALOG BOOK AS "SEGAR BOX, GILT", WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF "WRITING CASE" WRITTEN ABOVE, ADDED AT A LATER DATE. THE INCORRECT NUMBER OF 71 HAS NOW BEEN REMOVED AND THE PIECE HAS BEEN RENUMBERED AS 72. THE OLD NUMBER FOUND ON THE BOX COVER ALSO CARRIES WITH IT THE NAME OF COMM. PERRY, AFFIRMING THAT THIS DID COME FROM PERRY'S COLLECTION. L.L.EISENHART 6/1981. LOANED TO COOPER-HEWITT 8/19/81. FOR "WRITING AND READING: EX. SEPT. 15, 1981-JAN. 3, 1982. RETURNED TO NHB 2/15/82."
label: Notes
content: See Chang-Su Houchins. 1995. Artifacts of Diplomacy: Smithsonian Collections from Commodore Matthew Perry's Japan Expedition (1853-1854). Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, Number 37. P 23 and 24
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Jul 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Japan (not certain), Asia (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Japanese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 199043
label: USNM Number
content: E72-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Writing Case
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 24.5 cm
label: Width
content: 20.5 cm
label: Height
content: 4.5 cm