Tray
This tray was designed to appeal to Western tastes. It depicts a famous and distinguished samurai called Kato Kiyomasa (Toranosuke), who fought many battles and who participated in the 1592 invasion of Korea. Kiyomasa had a reputation for hunting tigers with a spear for sport. The wooden tray is decorated with fragments of coral, pearl shell and gold leaf. Length = 770mm. Donated to RAMM by Sir Harry Veitch.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 62/1924/235
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Household objects
- Material
- woodlacquerpearl shellstonecoral, gold dust (maki-e)
- Common Name
- tray
- Simple Name
- tray
- Production Country
- Japan
- Production Year High
- 1924
