The Burke Collection
Wash basin (tarai, 盥)
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Catalogue information

Muromachi period, 1353 or 1413

Red and black lacquer with exposed keyaki (Zelkova serrata) wood

H. 16 cm (6 1/4 in.), diam. 32.8 cm (12 7/8 in.)

Donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015

Literature

Kawada Sadamu 1985, fig. 39
Kawada Sadamu
1985
Negoro. Kyoto: Shikōsha.

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Avitabile 1990, no. 109
Avitabile, Gunhild
1990
[Editor]. Die Kunst des alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York. Exh. cat. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.

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Murase 1993, no. 75
Murase, Miyeko
1993
Jewel Rivers: Japanese Art from the Burke Collection. Exh. cat. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Art.

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Murase 2000, no. 74.
Murase, Miyeko
2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Additional details

Text

Sanshitsubō; cyclical date of 1353 or 1413