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Tray with rice stalks and a grasshopper on a tea kettle by Shibata Zeshin — VisualArtsDB

Tray with rice stalks and a grasshopper on a tea kettle

Tray with rice stalks and a grasshopper on a tea kettle

1881–1889

Medium: Lacquered wood; gold, silver, red, yellow, black hiramaki-e and takamaki-e on “bronze imitation” (seido-nuri) ground
Dimensions: L. 14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm)
Genre: lacquer
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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