Portable picnic set. Japan, Edo period, second half 18th c. Powdered gold (aventurine) lacquer; hiramaki-e on a nashiji background. Brooklyn Museum collection [2000×1333]
Portable picnic set. Japan, Edo period, second half 18th c. Powdered gold (aventurine) lacquer; hiramaki-e on a nashiji background. Brooklyn Museum collection [2000×1333]
Japan, Edo period, second half of the 18th century
Wood, lacquer, gold, pigment
Gift of Theodore E. Smith, 06.310
This elegant set, which is more deluxe than other objects on view, holds everything needed for a small picnic: sake cups and chopsticks may have been included in one of the drawers located above and below the lidded sake bottles. The main box can be slid out and unstacked to reveal four food trays. Edo-period laws banned non-samurai from using this kind of gold-decorated lacquerware, but well-to-do merchants often ignored such restrictions.
• Provenance: Acquired by Theodore E. Smith, before 1906; donated, 1906.]
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[Portable Picnic Set *(Sagejuu)*
Japan, Edo period, second half of the 18th century
Wood, lacquer, gold, pigment
Gift of Theodore E. Smith, 06.310
This elegant set, which is more deluxe than other objects on view, holds everything needed for a small picnic: sake cups and chopsticks may have been included in one of the drawers located above and below the lidded sake bottles. The main box can be slid out and unstacked to reveal four food trays. Edo-period laws banned non-samurai from using this kind of gold-decorated lacquerware, but well-to-do merchants often ignored such restrictions.
• Provenance: Acquired by Theodore E. Smith, before 1906; donated, 1906.]